[Samba] Guest user in AD...

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Nov 24 15:25:27 UTC 2017


On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:56:27 +0100
Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> In NT mode 'smbldap-tools' provision also a guest user, and in my
> smb.conf i've had:
> 
> 	guest account = guest
>         map to guest = Bad User
> 
> In AD mode, no guest user get created, so seems to me that the default
> guest account ( = nobody ) is correct.

It does get created, it is a standard AD windows user and is a member of
the windows AD 'Guests' group. 
Windows users & groups are by default not visible on Unix.

> 
> 
> I'm curious if 'map to guest' have to be handled differently in AD
> mode...

Just remove the 'guest account' line.

Rowland




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