[Samba] Access to a share resource without password

Chris Weiss cweiss at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 08:12:37 MST 2011


On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:25 AM, J. L. Cabral <jelocabral at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK thanks, but when I try to access from a Linux Debian machine as
> guest, I fail again....look:
>
> Debian:~# smbclient //10.4.133.109/share -U guest
> Enter guest's password: <I put any password because guest is not a
> samba nor Linux user>

guest access doesn't actually use a username, this may be the problem.
 to force-use the anonymous account, you can do: -U %

I'd start here:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/FastStart.html
you don't have to get very down that page to have a anonymous read-write share.


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