Fwd: [Samba] Trouble setting up an Anonymous read/write samba server for WinXP Pro users

[Michael]

Hi Tim,
i hope this will help You:
null passwords (G)

    Allow or disallow client access to accounts that have null passwords.

    See also smbpasswd(5).

    Default: null passwords = no 

Greetings,

 Mike

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tim Harvey <tharvey at alumni.calpoly.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:47:13 -0700
Subject: [Samba] Trouble setting up an Anonymous read/write samba
server for WinXP Pro users
To: samba at lists.samba.org

Greetings,

I'm having difficulty setting up an 'Anonymous Read-Write' SAMBA server on a
new system with a stock FC2 installation for use with WinXP Pro systems.

Following the instructions and examples in the official SAMBA howto, I'm
under the impression that I want a smb.conf file such as:

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
netbios name = FILESERVER
security = SHARE

[data]
comment = Data
path = /export
force user = nobody
force group = nobody
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

The problem I'm running into is that when I attempt to connect to the share
from a WinXP Pro system by simply using the address \\fileserver in an
explorer window, I immediately get a 'Connect to fileserver' window from
WinXP with a greyed out username set to 'fileserver\Guest' and asking for a
password.  I'm confused - the whole point of setting up an anonymous
read/write server was to avoid having to put user accounts on the samba
server.