[Samba] Installing Samba 3

Ricky Nance ricky.nance at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 11:13:07 MST 2015


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Gary Stainburn <
gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 January 2015 16:30:18 Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 02:14:20PM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > Still trying to get security = share working, which it appears means I
> > > need to install Samba 3. As the server is pretty much goverened by
> this,
> > > I can
> >
> > You don't need Samba3.x, 4.x is no different in terms of
> > security levels.
> >
> > Replacement for share level security:
> >
> > security = user
> > map to guest = Bad Password
>
> Jeremy,
>
> With CentOS 6.3 and Samba 3.6.23 I now have access to "security = share"
> which
> is what I wanted.
>
> Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. When I try to connect to the new
> server
> using the WinXP and Win7 clients that are using the old server they just
> fail
> to connect.
>
> I understand that the work-around you quote is how people are getting round
> the fact that share security doesn't work any more. However, I can't use
> that
> method as I need to retain password protection.
>
> Gary
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Gary, I think what he is trying to say is that this functionality still
exists, but you need to use different samba config options to make it work.
Please see the following wiki (which I referenced for you on the samba
mailing list).

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Public_Samba_Server


If you post your config (you can use XXX as masking if you need to hide
parts of it) and explain how it works currently or how you expect it to
work, I am sure someone would give you advice on how to get there. As far
as I know all the functionality of "security = share" still exists, though
it works a bit differently now.

Ricky


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