[Samba] samba config for guest users

[Pol Hallen]

thanks for your reply but this config does not work (I tested on 1809 
win version)
I had already tested this samba version :)

\\windows cannot access

no log info/error on /var/log/samba

Pol

On 11/30/20 11:18 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 30/11/2020 21:53, Pol Hallen via samba wrote:
>> Hello to all :)
>>
>> I trying to use a guest user config with win10, the problem is: I 
>> cannot make modify to ALL win10 but only to someone.
>>
>> I enabled SMB2 guest account on win10:
>>
>> Local Group Policy editor:
>> --> Administrative Templates\Network\Lanman Workstation --> Enable 
>> insecure guest logons
>>
>> works!
>> but other win10 with standard config cannot access totally to 
>> fileserver:
>>
>> "Windows cannot access \\DEBIAN10-1"
>
> OK, the guest user on Windows has absolutely nothing to do with guest 
> access on a Samba standalone server, so turn Guest off on Windows again.
>
> A guest user on Samba, is any user that is unknown to Samba and 
> provided that 'map to guest = Bad User' is set in 'global' and 'guest 
> ok = yes' is set in the share, a guest user will be allowed access to 
> the share.
>
> On a Samba standalone server (which is what you have), to make a user 
> known, the user must be a Unix user and have been created as a Samba 
> user with 'smbpasswd -a username' run as root.
>
> Try this smb.conf:
>
> [global]
>         security = user
>         map to guest = Bad User
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>
> [public]
>         comment = Public share
>         path = /home/users
>         read only = no
>         guest ok = yes
>         guest only = yes
>
> [nopublic]
>         path=/home/nopublic
>         admin users = root
>         valid users = user1, user2, user3, user4, user5
>         read only = no
>
> This will only allow unknown users access to the 'public' share, any 
> known users will be denied. The users user1, user2, user3, user4 and 
> user5 are the only users that will be allowed access to 'nopublic', 
> but only if they are Unix & Samba users.
>
> Rowland
>
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-- 
Pol