Hi all,

I have a new server running RHEL9, and for some reason, going to \\servername\ gets me a list of all shares without any authentication at all. I know it has to be something simple that will make it require a login for all shares, but I can't seem to find the setting.

Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks!

Update of sorts. I found the following in smb.conf:

Setting guest ok and public to 'no' seemed to do the job of disabling public access, but now from a Windows box, I get a login prompt with Guest as the only user option - I can't change the username.

Friendly morning bump.

And another.

So here's what I have now:

All of my shares are working as intended, aside from the Profiles share. I basically have to have guest, public and browsable set to yes in order for people with folders there to be able to get them to show up. What I'm trying to do is to have the Profiles share visible to all, but if clicked on, have it toss up a login box. If I log in as johndoe, I'd like Profiles\johndoe to be the only visible folder. Right now, if I turn off browsable/guest access, a login box pops up but doesn't allow me to put in a username.

Is this possible?

If you say

guest ok = yes
public = yes

you'll have no password request, because you are registered as guest.
From the smb.conf man page:

public

This parameter is a synonym for guest ok.

guest ok (S)

If this parameter is yes for a service, then no password is
required to connect to the service. Privileges will be those of
the guest account.

This paramater nullifies the benifits of setting restrict
anonymous = 2

See the section below on security for more information about
this option.

Default: guest ok = no

So you can put away those "public" parameters, and leave "guest ok = no", and you'll have an authentication request.