[Samba] Proposal to change security=share in Samba 4.0

[Volker Lendecke]

Andrew,

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:53:47AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 07:30 -0500, Mike Rambo wrote:
> 
> >  From what I saw in the rest of the thread it looks like there will 
> > still be a way to do this but I thought I'd chime in since the subject 
> > has come up and we do use security=share to accomplish this at present.
> 
> There will always be a way to allow guest access to a Samba server.  We
> may change the smb.conf option, but this facility will always remain.

to support your proposal, could you start documentation on
wiki.samba.org (if it's not already there) how to do the
closest possible equivalent to the public security=share
server using alternatives? I think we need a precise
to-the-point reference we can reply with when confused users
enter the mailing lists that is very available to everyone.

Volker

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