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

Scott Ballantyne sdb at ssr.com
Thu May 29 16:42:52 MDT 2014


> 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."
> 
> 

Regrettably, without the samba account for 'nobody', I couldn't even
login as guest with smbclient on the server.



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