[SOLVED] need help configuring samba for no password
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guest account = ohprso
log file = /var/log/samba.%m
max log size = 50
passdb backend = tdbsam
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
preferred master = yes
wins support = yes
dns proxy = no
[website]
path = /srv/tomcat/webapps/ohprs
public = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
writeable = yes
browseable= yes
printable = no
create mask = 0660
[xfer]
path = /home/ohprs/xfer
public = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
writeable = yes
browseable= yes
printable = no
create mask = 0660
This is a modified version of a smb.conf, with passwords, that worked. Before, I had 'security = user', and 'valid users' in the service sections, and did not have 'guest ok', or 'guest only' in these sections. The previous version worked, but I had to login in with ID and PW.
When I restart samba with the above, it still gives me the User Id and password dialog. Why?
That is because you have disabled anonymous visits to your samba share and have provided credentials for valid users.
So its obvious that you do not want any user to access other user's share.
Well, I don't want "anonymous" access. I want users to access as a guest without having to enter a password and I want the user ID for the guest account to be "ohprso". I have the smb.conf file shown below in a non-Domain LAN which let's local users (192.168.2.0) connect w/o a password as user 'guest' and remotely with password as user 'cantleys'. This works fine. I'm basically trying to accomplish the same thing with the posted config without even bothering with remote access.
I have specified 'security = share' in both cases, 'guest account = xxxx' in both cases and, for the non-passworded local shares 'public = yes, guest ok = yes, guest only = yes' in both cases. I don't get why the below config works and the above config doesn't.
The main difference I see is that the guest account in the working version is actually "guest" and in the non-working config is "ohprso". Does guest account have to litterally be "guest" for this to work? I'm sure I've done it before with another ID as long as that ID is in /etc/passwd.
First of all, I upgraded from samba 3.0.25b to 3.5.8. That did make a difference. I used the -o option of useradd to create a "guest" user with the same uid as the target folder owner: ohprso, no password. Then I made the following smb.conf file. That seemed to do the trick! Note that I also had to remove the old credentials from the various windows workstations: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-id/w...er-credentials
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