samba - Dec 2002 - smbclient thinks passwordless account is anonymous

I want to use a passwordless account on my windows box to connect to 
from my linux box.

When I do a smbclient "" -L host -U name, smbclient always prints 
"Anonymous login successful" even though I supplied a username. If I 
supply a password on the command line instead, then I don't get the 
Anonymous login message. Neither way works since the account actually 
doesn't have a password, but if I set a password and use it with 
smbclient then everything works as expected.

It seems that if you don't supply smbclient with a password, then it 
assumes anonymous login regardless of whether or not the -U option was 
given. Is this the intended behavior or a bug?

Thanks,
John

Read about guest logins.
Joel

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:43:58AM -0800, John Tyner
wrote:
> I want to use a passwordless account on my windows box to connect to 
> from my linux box.
> 
> When I do a smbclient "" -L host -U name, smbclient always prints
> "Anonymous login successful" even though I supplied a username.
If I
> supply a password on the command line instead, then I don't get the 
> Anonymous login message. Neither way works since the account actually 
> doesn't have a password, but if I set a password and use it with 
> smbclient then everything works as expected.
> 
> It seems that if you don't supply smbclient with a password, then it 
> assumes anonymous login regardless of whether or not the -U option was 
> given. Is this the intended behavior or a bug?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
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I want to connect _from_ the linux box _to_ the windows box. I think the 
problem is in smbclient, not samba itself.

John

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:46:12PM -0500, Joel Hammer
wrote:
> Try man smb.conf
> 
> It explains how to set up the samba server to assign a user name to a logon
with
> no password.
> eg.
> 
> [global]
> 	guest account = ftp
> 
> [cdrom1]
> 	comment = CDROM1
> 	path = /mnt/cdrom1
> 	guest ok = yes
> 
> guest account can be any valid user, like root. This gets rid of all those
> pesky permissions problems.
> 
> Joel
> 
>

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On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, John Tyner wrote:
> I want to use a passwordless account on my windows box to connect to 
> from my linux box.
> 
> When I do a smbclient "" -L host -U name, smbclient always prints
> "Anonymous login successful" even though I supplied a username.
If I
> supply a password on the command line instead, then I don't get the 
> Anonymous login message. Neither way works since the account actually 
> doesn't have a password, but if I set a password and use it with 
> smbclient then everything works as expected.
> 
> It seems that if you don't supply smbclient with a password, then it 
> assumes anonymous login regardless of whether or not the -U option was 
> given. Is this the intended behavior or a bug?
This sounds like our bug.  Do you have a patch?  If not, it will
be al ittle while before I get caught up and can look into it.




cheers, jerry
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set-up an account on the Linux machine,

Then put

null passwords = yes 

in the smb.conf file ( the global section)

then do a 

smbpasswd -an username

which will create a samba account with no password ( or a null password ). 

When the user logs on it will use his machine username  should be seen in
smbstatus

hope that helps

Ken


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From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of jra@dp.samba.org
Sent: 04 January 2003 1:33 AM
To: Gerald (Jerry) Carter
Cc: John Tyner; samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] smbclient thinks passwordless account is anonymous


On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:20:13PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter
wrote:
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> On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, John Tyner wrote:
> 
> > I want to use a passwordless account on my windows box to connect to 
> > from my linux box.
> > 
> > When I do a smbclient "" -L host -U name, smbclient always
prints
> > "Anonymous login successful" even though I supplied a
username. If I
> > supply a password on the command line instead, then I don't get
the
> > Anonymous login message. Neither way works since the account actually 
> > doesn't have a password, but if I set a password and use it with 
> > smbclient then everything works as expected.
> > 
> > It seems that if you don't supply smbclient with a password, then
it
> > assumes anonymous login regardless of whether or not the -U option was
> > given. Is this the intended behavior or a bug?
> 
> This sounds like our bug.  Do you have a patch?  If not, it will
> be al ittle while before I get caught up and can look into it.
I took a quick look at this. To use an account with no password
try

smbclient -L host -Uname%""

instead. If the password is not supplied then smbclient will always
try again with an anonymous request.

Jeremy.
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