samba anonymous logins?

TomalakBORG · 02-04-2006, 12:10 PM

Hello -

I would like to be able to login using no username and no password to my samba share, and have it work. If it could, I would like this anonymous user have the same rights as anyone in group 'users'. My smb.conf file will be attatched. How would I go about doing this?

-Bill

Code:

## Share disabled by YaST
# [netlogon]
# smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented
# version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the
# samba-doc package is installed.
# Date: 2005-11-11
[global]
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
domain master = no
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd  -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$
restrict anonymous = no
max protocol = NT
ldap ssl = No
server signing = Auto
encrypt password = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
update encrypted = yes
null passwords = yes
preferred master = no
server string =

[filevault]
path = /media/filevault
case sensitive = no
guest ok = yes
write list = tux,root
directory mask = 750
create mask = 640
msdfs proxy = no
valid users = tux,root,@users
hide dot files = no
fstype = EXT2

satinet · 02-04-2006, 03:23 PM

you need to use 'guest = ok'

and also there is a parameter to map guest uses to a user of your choice (who you could put in the users group of course). might be something like 'map to guest =' or 'bad users='

it definately explains this in the o'reilly book (electronic version) that comes with samba.....

TomalakBORG · 02-10-2006, 06:52 PM

Agreed with the guest = ok, only I've hit a snag. My guest account will be 'ftp' belonging to group 'users' -- this is fine, all I want is for null logins to be mapped to ftp, which will have all the rights of any user in group 'users'.
in [global] I added:
guest account = ftp
map to guest = Bad User # this is so when an invalid login name is passed, it directs to the guest account

in [filevault] (my share) I added:
guest ok = yes

Here's the problem. Like that, windows/linux never prompts for username/password and always logs in as guest (which by the way works right, i.e., has the correct rights and such). What could I be doing wrong?

satinet · 02-11-2006, 01:43 PM

did you look at the book i mentioned?

i've never wanted to do that. so i can't say from personal experience.

i hope you can work it out! sorry....