[Samba] security = share

Adam Nielsen adam.nielsen at uq.edu.au
Thu Jun 1 23:17:39 GMT 2006


> [images]
>         public = yes
>
> It is not prompting for a password, what am I missing?

public=yes means anyone can connect to the share.  You will notice from
your logs that the user authentication fails, and here you would
normally get an error message - but because of public=yes, Samba just
lets you connect as the user 'nobody'.

Cheers,
Adam.


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