[NBLUG/talk] No password on samba share?

[David]

does this setup allow your windows users to not have to enter a password 
everytime they access this samba share?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Troy Arnold" <troy at zenux.net>
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Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] No password on samba share?


> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 02:43:17PM -0800, David wrote:
>> I know this is mostly a samba issue, but I'll post here as well. Small 
>> home
>> network with a gentoo linux system running the samba server 3
>>
>> I've set up a user 'foobar' on the linux box, put it in the smbpasswd
>> database, and every time the users in windows try to access the share, 
>> they
>> always get the user/password prompt in windows. In the global section of
>> /etc/samba/smb.conf file I have tried secruity = user, secruity = share,
>> guest account=foobar, and in the "storage" share definition I have force
>> user=foobar, writeable=yes, browsable=yes, but in windows the users still
>> have to enter a username/password.
>>
>> BTW, this machine does not have an X server and I am not using SWAT to 
>> setup
>> the smb.conf file. The overall objective is to get every windows box on 
>> the
>> network to have full read/write on the share with out entering
>> usernames/passwords every time they need to access the share.
>
> Here's what I have for my 'incoming' folder:
>
> [incoming]
>    comment = Incoming
>    path = /pub/incoming
>    username = nobody
>    force user = nobody
>    force group = nogroup
>    read only = No
>    create mask = 0777
>    force directory mode = 0777
>    inherit permissions = Yes
>    guest only = Yes
>    hosts allow = 192.168.
>
> I think the directive you are missing is 'guest only = Yes'
> I use security = user, BTW.
>
>
> hth
> -troy
>
>
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