RE: tlug: Samba progress . . . but

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 差出人 : Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
> >
> >from the smb.conf(5) manpage:
> >
> >       Services may be guest services, in which case no  password
> >       is  required  to access them. A specified guest account is
> >       used to define access privileges in this case.
> 
> 
> >You really should do a 'man smb.conf', and read it, too :)
> 
> 
> Oh, I did. That's where I got a lot of the information that has it working
> as well as it does now.  The problem is that if Samba were behaving like I
> think it should (that is, like the Microsoft network it's supposed to be
> mimicking here), it wouldn't be asking for authentication in this situation.
> It would just let people right in, no typing a password, no typing an ID,
> nothing.  That's the whole point of a publicly accessible directory, is it
> not?  Maybe Samba talks to Microsoft networks but isn't a complete
> work-alike, in which case I may just have to put up with this.  But I'll
> keep smashing my head on it for a while longer :-)

set up a guest account and give it access to the 'public' dir.  According
to the man page, no authentication is required for guest accounts.

> 
> Jonathan
> 
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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