[Samba] problems setting a public share

[Michael Heydon]

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Wednesday 9 April 2008 your cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:
>   
>> you will need to show us your entire config, not just the share
>>
>> do you have a map to guest line? does your guest user exist?
>>
>>     
> <snip>
>   
Your config looks reasonable to me...
> However, if I try to log in specifying the guest.samba account, then I 
> succeed, but if I try to login without specifying a username, then I got a 
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED.
>
> smbclient //sedeldap/pub_smb 
> WARNING: The "printer admin" option is deprecated
> Password:
> Domain=[LDAP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.26a]
> tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
>   
SMB connections always have a username (when using user level security). 
Is there a user called "guest" on the server? Is $USER set on the client 
machine?

What happens if you do a:

smbclient //sedeldap/pub_smb -U SomeNameThatDefinitelyDoesntExist


> and if I try to login as guest.samba (or another registered user) I got access 
> to the share.
>
> Any idea?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>