[Samba] Guest account access with User mode security?

[Mansell, Gary]

Hi,

I have finally had time to put up the test server and perform the
actions that you asked for with logging set to 10.

I would expect that a Windows machine should be able to access a public
share on the Samba server without the clear text password hack being
applied (it always worked fine with Samba 2.x and share mode security)
so the tar file No-Encrypted_PWD.tar has the logs for this instance.
>From the client machine I tried to map the share \\172.30.50.247\nt
(which is public) and the error that I got back on the laptop was the
one that you would get to indicate that you need to apply the encrypted
password hack to the machine. This should not happen, the machine should
be able to map the drive without the encrypted password hack or
supplying a username/password.

For completeness, I then installed the encrypted password hack on the
Windows client and performed the same connection with a fresh set of
logfiles. This time it came straight back with a password dialog box
(wrong behaviour) so I entered in guest as the username with no password
and it came back with the password dialog box again

It seems that others on the Internet have mentioned that guest access
does not work for user mode authentications so it seems not to be just
me although it surprises me that such a fundamental feature seems to be
flawed???

Any advice that you can offer would be gladly received.

Regards

Gary Mansell





On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 07:24 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Mansell, Gary wrote:
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> > If a user (who does not have a login account on the 
> > Samba server) tries to map a guest share, the user gets
> > presented with a login dialog asking for a password
> > for the Guest account - how can I just allow access
> > without the user being asked for a password?
> 
> Gary,  Please send me a level 10 debug log from smbd
> with the failed login and failed guest access.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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