[Samba] Ver 3.0.4 Anonymous access, no Password required

[remote]

Hi !

What is the setting for your security level ? From the look of your 
smb.conf, you have security=user, which means only users known to Samba 
(with smbpasswd -a) can even access the server, let alone write on its 
shares. Maybe you should switch to security=share, this might work. I 
wouldn´t apply this to the homes share, though.

Jörg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zane Minninger" <zminninger at gmail.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:41 PM
Subject: [Samba] Ver 3.0.4 Anonymous access, no Password required


>I have searched the Docs, How-to's, and this news group/ Mailing list
> and still haven't found what I am looking for, at least not an answer.
>
> I am simply trying to allow access to public shares on my Linux PC
> (slackware 10).  I have a directory setup but the only way to get in
> is to send a Username and Password.  I am setting it up for WinXP and
> Win2K PC's to access.  I have set up the nobody account, even gave it
> a password of nothing and enabled it.  Still WinXP requests a userID
> and password.
>
>  I do have a mildly, but not outrageous, custom setting.  I have 2
> nics and only want one of them to be accessed by windows request.  I
> am not sure what account the WinXP tries to connect with by default.
>
> I can make a share on Windows and tell it to allow read access by
> anyone, so no one has to enter an ID or password.  Is this possible in
> Samba and I passed some critical information to make this work?
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ; /etc/smb.conf
> ;
> ; Make sure and restart the server after making changes to this file, ex:
> ; /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
> ; /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
>
> [global]
> ; Uncomment this if you want a guest account
>   workgroup = Trigun
>   server string = Niles Server
>   guest account = nobody
>   log file = /var/log/samba/samba-log.%m
>   lock directory = /var/lock/samba
>   share modes = yes
>   interfaces = X.X.X.225/29 ; 1 of 5 Statics, Subnet 255.255.255.248
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>   smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
> ;   valid users = %s
>
> [Upload]
>   comment = Upload Area
>   path = /var/ftp/pub/uploaded
>   read only = no
>   public = yes
>   writable = yes
>   printable = no
>
> ;[homes]
> ;   comment = Home Directories
> ;   browseable = no
> ;   read only = no
> ;   create mode = 0750
>
> [Pub]
>   comment = Public Folder
>   path = /var/ftp/pub
>   public = yes
>   writable = no
>   printable = no
>   write list = midnight
> ~
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Any help would be appriciate, and sorry if seems I'm upset, frustrated
> is more like it.  Every post I've seen has a couple of suggestions and
> then no "yes it worked, no it didn't".  And there are only 3 or so I
> could find in the archive.
>
> --Zane
>
> P.S. On a side not, I would love to have the Homes sections un
> commented but if I use an ID with no password for the time being, it
> gives the home directory of the ID.  I hope if there is a solution to
> the no password dialog box, that it will allow homes to be opened.  If
> not, any suggestions?  All suggestions are welcome, as well as any
> improvements to this config are welcome.  I know so little, I'm amazed
> I got samba to work, last time and 1 week later I had nothing working.
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