[Samba] How to define share for sharing lmhosts?

[René Nieuwenhuizen]

Hi All,

Probably simple question: I want to make a share for sharing an lmhosts
file which gets included by the clients. This share has to be very
public and accept nullsessions (whatever that me be (no username and
password?)).

I want this because I need to generate aliases on the fly for for our
fileserver for some clients (terminalservers specifically). So I thought
that having an server side maintained lmhosts file that is included by
the terminalserver clients would do the trick.

The lmhosts file on the clients contains:
===================================================================
172.16.16.9    fileserver    #PRE #DOM:network

#BEGIN_INCLUDE
#INCLUDE \\fileserver\public\lmhosts
#END_INCLUDE
===================================================================

The share on the fileserver (which is running in userlevel security) has
been defined as:
===================================================================
[public]
     path = /usr/local/samba/public
     guest ok = yes
     guest only = yes
     map to guest = Bad Password
     read only = yes
===================================================================

Although I suspected this would do the trick the logfile shows the
following messages:
===================================================================
   asisis (172.16.64.3) connect to service public as user smbguest
(uid=97, gid=9
7) (pid 14578)
[2003/02/16 20:11:21, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(1001)
   Rejecting user 'root': authentication failed
[2003/02/16 20:12:04, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(1001)
   Rejecting user 'root': authentication failed
[2003/02/16 20:12:42, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(677)
   asisis (172.16.64.3) closed connection to service public
===================================================================

Why is user root rejected? This share is totally public isn't it?

TIA

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