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

[Scott Ballantyne]

> Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 14:33:45 -0700
> From: Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline
> 
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:43:23PM -0000, 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]
> 
> Looks like your client is requesting access
> as an account literally called "SSRCOM\Guest".
> 
> Look at the smb.conf "map to guest" parameter.
> You probably need "map to guest = Bad User".
> 
> Jeremy.
> 
> 

Jeremy,

Thank you so very much for solving my problem!

Warm regards,
Scott
-- 
sdb at ssr.com