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Old 06-09-2005, 10:04 PM   #1
eranj
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Samba and accounts


I want to allow access from one or two Windows machines to my Linux box.
Is the only way to allow access is to open an account per Win. machine? or I can work somehow without accounts on the Linux box?
I hope you can simply explain me how to do this.
 
Old 06-10-2005, 12:07 AM   #2
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I’m not really sure what you need here, but I’m guessing you want to me able to make a samba share on your Linux box and then have the to windows machines access without passwords/usernames??

If that’s right then open up your smb.conf file and make the following changes:

Security = share
Guest account = samba or whatever account is on your machine

Then make the share

[share]
Path = /home/share
Guest account = ok
Read only = no
Public = yes

Then give the samba user no password in the command line type ‘smbpasswd samba’ and set no password.

Then make sure that the directory /home/share is readable/writeable to everyone

Chmod –R a+rwx /home/share

sorry for wasting your time if i miss understood.
 
  


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