[Samba] Samba as client, windows 200 pro as server of anonymous share

[Dan Perik]

Guest doesn't happen to be disabled on the Win2000 machine, does it? 
That's the default.

- Dan

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 11:54, Fabrice Gautier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This may look more like a question on how to configure my windows 2000 than
> my samba but here I go:
> 
> I'm trying to access some shares on a windows 200o pro box from a linux
> samba client. I want anybody to access the share from anywhere without a
> password.
> 
> In the windows 2000 share I have set full control permissions for Everyone,
> and also for the Guest user. The guest user has no password.
> 
> On the linux machine I try to connect with:
> 
> smbclient //win2000host/share -U guest
> 
> then when asked for the password i hit enter and I got a
> "Anonymous login sucessful"message
> but then i got "tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
> 
> When i connect as another user of the win2000 host i can connect by entering
> the corresponding password. I created another user with no password and the
> windows machine and it works, but im still wondering why it doesnt work with
> the guest user.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> -- 
> Fabrice Gautier, 
> Fabrice_Gautier at sdesigns.com
> 
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- Dan Perik
Computer Services Department
Lapilo Center
New Tribes Mission - PNG