[Samba] strange behavior maybe dependent on valid users

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Oct 7 07:56:01 GMT 2002


Willi Mann wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> My problem:
> 
> I have a network with many workgroups and my samba server 3.0alpha21cvs
> is the only member of one of that workgroups.
> If I went to the network neighborhood and tried to open the workgroup of
> my samba server I got an error message saying that the workgroup
> "mygroup" was not available.
> So I minimized the settings in the global section of my smb.conf and I
> was able to open "mygroup".
> I reactivated the most important options like "interfaces" and "hosts
> allow", which didn't seem to be the problem.
> But when I reactivated "valid users" containing 4 users, I was not able
> to browse "mygroup" any more.
> 
> So, is it possible, that the ability to open a workgroup with only one
> samba server depends on the value of "valid users"?
> Do you have any other ideas, how to solve that problem?

A *global* 'valid users' will need to include the guest account, as this
is how some of these operations are conducted.

Andrew Bartlett

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