[Samba] Can login as Guest from server, but not from workstation?

[Gaiseric Vandal]

You may want to check your smb.conf (or " testparm -v" output) for the 
"guest account" variable.

The default is
     guest account = nobody


that I think should map to an existing (and probably restricted) unix 
user account (e.g. in /etc/passwd.)



I don't think you need to create a samba account for "nobody."





On 05/29/14 16:43, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a long-running samba einstallation on Freebsd, with various
> incarnations of windows from XP through Vista and Windows 7 all
> working flawlessly. Recently we added a media computer (TVIX) and
> decided to use Samba to serve the files to the TVIX. This is when my
> misery began..
>
> The TVIX requires the share to be TVIXHD1 and accessed via the Guest
> account (it is not very flexible about changing options). So I created
> the share:
>
> [TVIXHD1]
> comment = MEDIA FILES
> path = /var/VIDEONFS
> read only = no
> guest ok  = yes
> public = yes
>
> I didn't use guest only, because we want people to be able to access
> this share normally also. I added the 'nobody' user to the password
> database using pdbedit, so I could use the default user for
> Guest. Testing with smbclient -U Guest prompts for a password, but
> when I just hit return, I get the share with no problem.
>
> However, trying to access the share from the TVIX machine provides no
> joy. Setting the debug level to 3, what I see when the TVIX tries to
> login is
>
> 1) A call to check_ntlm_password, which checks for the unmapped user
>     []\[Guest]@[192.168.1.5], mapped user is [NS]\[Guest]@[192.168.1.5]
>
> Couldn't find user 'Guest' in passdb and fails. It then repeats this
> exact sequence, and fails again.
>
> Comparing the logfiles with the succesful login from the sever using
> smbclient
>
> 1) check_ntlm_passwrd, unmapped user [SSRCOM]\[Guest]@[NS]
>                         mapped user [NS]\[Guest]@[NS]
>
> Can't find user 'Guest' in passdb and fails. As above, it continues to
> do repeat the authentication, but this time uses an empty password,
> instead of the same one:
>
> 2) check_ntlm_password: unmapped user []\[]@[]
>                          mapped user []\[]@[]
>
> and then it says guest authenticatl for user [] succeeded with user
> name nobody.
>
> Can someone tell me how to get this to happen for the client machine?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Scott