[Samba] Different Types of Guest Logins?

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 2022-02-17 at 03:36 -0500, Hal Vaughan via samba wrote:
> I’m having an issue with a new media server.
> 
> Previously, I was using a Debian Linux server for my media server.
> Basically, it was just Samba shares, since that seems the easiest way
> for a number of programs (on Linux, Mac, iOs, Android tablets, and
> Apple TV) to be able to play back video and audio files. It’s also
> easier than setting up streaming servers.
> 
> This Debian server worked fine. I used this for the configuration for
> a share:
> 
> 
> On this system, on several programs, I just did not enter a username
> or password to log into that share.
> 
> Now I’m using a RAID device, a Synology DS620Slim. 

There is only 'guest' access on Samba when using 'map to guest = bad
user', if use a user is unknown to Samba, the user gets mapped to
'nobody' before it gets anywhere near the share(s).

What I think is going on here is that your old server was using SMBv1
and your new one isn't. The other problem that you may have coming,
Windows 10 pro has guest access turned off by default.

Rowland