Hey guys and girls.

I just have a small issue i am tring to work thought. I have setup a pc at work and running it as a little file server. However i am having trouble getting to it without needing to authenticate myself.

When i authenticae myself its all cool but i would like a guest account to default be able to access one share.

the computer im connecting it to from is part of a domain and the samba server is just a standalone machine.

Could anyone give me any suggestions as to what i can do so i don't need to authenticate myself to access this share

I have a dump of my SMB.conf file. Im running slackware 10

[global]


workgroup = MYGROUP

server string = Dumpty Dum

security = user

; hosts allow = 192.168.5.108 127.

# Uncomment this if you want a guest account, you must add this to /etc/passwd
# otherwise the user "nobody" is used
guest account = nobody

log file = /var/log/samba.%m

# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).
max log size = 50

# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
# See the chapter 'Samba performance issues' in the Samba HOWTO Collection
# and the manual pages for details.
# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:
# SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
socket options = TCP_NODELAY


dns proxy = no

add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd %u
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
add machine script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %u
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel %u
delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/deluser %u %g
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g


#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes

# This one is useful for people to share files
[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
path = /home/tmp
read only = no
public = yes
force user = nobody

# My Stuff
[Little Dump]
comment = Dumpty Dum
public = yes
path = /home/ftp
write list = ben
writable = yes




Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi

I do pretty much what you want (a free directory available to all Windows users on the my LAN without needing authentication from their end) with:

[shared]
path = /mnt/win/shared
guest ok = yes
writeable = yes
create mode = 0666
directory mode = 0777
browseable = yes
public = yes

Hope this helps?