[Samba] Guest shares in an ADS security model

[Madhusudan Singh]

Hello,

I have no control over the active directory. I just authenticate a subset of
its members to give them access to the fileserver.

Does this mean that there is no true guest access when using ADS ?



On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20 October 2010 17:52, Madhusudan Singh <singh.madhusudan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Seems pathetic to reply to my own message, but since I cannot find any
> > working examples via Google, I have to ask this question.
> >
> > Should be simple enough for the resident gurus to answer ?
>
> I would guess you need to enable to Guest user in Active Directory and
> then set up the share such that the Guest user has access.
>
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Madhusudan Singh <
> > singh.madhusudan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Are these possible ?
> >>
> >> I am trying to setup a guest access printer attached to a working
> >> fileserver that authenticates its users against a Windows AD. I keep
> getting
> >> authentication requests on attempting to connect to the printer.
> >>
> >> Before I post my smb.conf, I need to know if what I am trying to do is
> even
> >> possible,
>
> --
> Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>
>