[Samba] Peculiar Samba permission denied error

[Chris Smith]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Benjamin Allen <ballen at jeffcolib.org> wrote:
> It seems like an obvious error of "Permission denied."

I would go a step further.

Make sure you have a valid username map, for example:
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$ cat /etc/samba/smbusers
root = administrator
nobody = guest
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assuming 'nobody' is your nix guest account, if not define it with the
'guest account' parameter and create/edit the file accordingly

With a corresponding line in the global section of smb.conf:
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username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
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Be sure to keep your:
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map to guest = Bad User
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entry as well.

Then add:
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guest ok = yes
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to the share.

Can you connect then?