[Samba] Round 2 - Guest Share on WXP Host

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Paul Kerin wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who has tried to help so far.  Not quite there but I
> think I'm close.  For anyone new, it's a private 2 comp network (RH9 and
> WXP) so I just want the simplest guest access possible.

Suggest you remove from your smb.conf file the "encrypt passwords", the
"smb passwd file", and the "null passwords" entries, then try again.

- John T.

>
> This is my current smb.conf file:
>
> [global]
>
> workgroup = SAMBA
> encrypt passwords = yes
> smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> security = share
> null passwords = yes
>
> [test]
>
> comment = For testing only, please
> path = /root/transfer
> read only = no
> guest ok = yes
> guest only = yes
>
> I stop and start SMBD and NMBD after each change to my smb.conf file.  I
> also run testparm.  I've even started rebooting my WXP box to make sure
> the changes are picked up.  Probably just paranoia but WXP doesn't seem
> to notice changes I've made automatically.
>
> I also tried setting guest account = nobody, setting the linux password
> to nobody and setting the smbpasswd to nobody.
>
> The main change is from user to share access.  WXP recognises it as a
> guest account now but still prompts for a password.  Entering "nobody"
> didn't work when I was using the nobody account, Null password doesn't
> work when I'm not using nobody as the guest account.
>
> The folder /root/transfer has permissions set to drwxrwxrwx with the
> group nobody and the owner set to nobody.
>
> I even tried removing all the password related stuff from the globals
> area (just workgroup = SAMBA and security = share). Same problem, WXP
> expects a password and won't accept what should be the correct password.
> I don't think I need to set the netbios name because windows is
> detecting it ok, but I tried that as well.
>
> Is there anything else I can check/try?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org