[Samba] 4.4.3 on CentOS 6: no guest login

[Tom Yates]

On Sat, 14 May 2016, Rowland penny wrote:

> On 14/05/16 07:31, Tom Yates wrote:
>>  On Fri, 13 May 2016, Rowland penny wrote:
>> 
>> >  Might be a stupid question, but have you started Samba?
>> 
>> >  On 13/05/16 13:34, Tom Yates wrote:
>> > [stuff deleted] 
>>
>>  I think that shows it's running, no?
>
> OK, I can confirm this, I was using 4.4.2 and running the same command, I got 
> this:
>
> root at dc1:~# smbclient -L localhost -U%
> Domain=[SAMDOM] OS=[Windows 6.1] Server=[Samba 4.4.2]
>
>     Sharename       Type      Comment
>     ---------       ----      -------
>     netlogon        Disk
>     sysvol          Disk
>     IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba 4.4.2)
> Domain=[SAMDOM] OS=[Windows 6.1] Server=[Samba 4.4.2]
>
>     Server               Comment
>     ---------            -------
>
>     Workgroup            Master
>     ---------            -------
>
> A short while later, after I updated to 4.4.3, nothing else changed:
>
> root at dc1:~# smbclient -L localhost -U%
> Domain=[SAMDOM] OS=[Windows 6.1] Server=[Samba 4.4.3]
> tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED
>
> It seems there is a bug report for a similar problem, see: 
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11858
>
> The release notes for 4.4.3 seems to suggest this is supposed to be fixed:
>
> Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
> .......
> * BUG 11858: Allow anonymous smb connections.

I, too, can confirm that going back to samba 4.4.2 fixes the problem. 
Thank you!


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