[Samba] smbclient thinks passwordless account is anonymous

John Tyner jtyner at cs.ucr.edu
Fri Dec 27 06:08:00 GMT 2002


I want to connect _from_ the linux box _to_ the windows box. I think the 
problem is in smbclient, not samba itself.

John

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:46:12PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Try man smb.conf
> 
> It explains how to set up the samba server to assign a user name to a logon with
> no password.
> eg.
> 
> [global]
> 	guest account = ftp
> 
> [cdrom1]
> 	comment = CDROM1
> 	path = /mnt/cdrom1
> 	guest ok = yes
> 
> guest account can be any valid user, like root. This gets rid of all those
> pesky permissions problems.
> 
> Joel
> 
> 



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