Hello all

This is probably an easy question, but I'm baffled nonetheless.

I have three computers on my home network. Two PC's running XP home and one server running Fedora core 3. Samba is running on the server, and the smb.conf file looks like:

[global]
workgroup = Mshome
os level = 20
server string = FC3
security = share

[homes]
read only = no
browseable = yes
write list = tony, root, guest

[backup drive]
path = /mnt/backup
read only = no
browseable = yes
write list = tony
secutity = share

[Common]
writeable = yes
write list = tony, tina, guest
secutity = share
path = /data/Common
public = yes
guest = ok

[Web]
path = /var/www/html
read only = no
browseable = yes
write list = tony
secutity = share

I (tony) have an account on the server. My wife (tina) does not. My goal is: make it so that either XP computer can read and write to the "Common" directory at any time and I don't want to have to type in a username and password every time I want to do so. The backup and homes directories require a password, and that's fine with me.

Is it possible to make a Samba directory available read/write to all windows users without requiring any authentication whatsoever?

Any ideas?

Okay, this is a stab. Here is an entry from my SME server's smb.conf

path =/ (your path here)
read only = no
writable = yes
printable = no
inherit permissions = yes
create mode = 0640
[name]
comment = whatever you want.

I really sorry if this doesn't help. But it's worth a shot.

Regards

Mick

Well, one thing, if you're experiencing permissions issues, you can always use:

force user = (owner of the folder in the path)

However, this method still requires you to input a uname/passwd. Check out the Samba quides. I believe there is one on the internet.