[Samba] guest access

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Sat Dec 29 11:56:09 UTC 2018


On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:15:51 +0330
sam zand <zand.nas.storage at gmail.com> wrote:

> so why the guest user available in user list in the path:
> /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool users list
> 

Because it is a standard Windows user, it is not a Unix user (the Unix
guest user is usually 'nobody'). You should also be aware that using a
'Guest' user in Windows is heavily discouraged.

It is insecure to use a guest user in AD, so why do you want to do
this ?

Rowland



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