> Can shares be public on a server with user level security, i.e., no
> login required whatsoever?
Yes. See
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw/Patch32/readme.txt
This a readme for a patching system I created. Should contain the
information you need though. Here's the excerpt
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3. Setting up a GUEST SMB server using Samba
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The file server used at the College of Engineering is a Sun Ultra 170
running Solaris 2.5.1. The following instructions will provide
information for setting up Samba for guest access. I will assume some
basic knowledge of setting up Samba and will therefore not go into all
the gory details.
More infomation on Samba can be found at
http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba
For reasons that are too lengthly to go into here, it is recommended
that the guest SMB server be separate than one providing validated
access to shares.
- Following the instructions found with the Samba distribution for
editing the Makefile in order to compile the software. You cannot
use precompiled versions because of a change that will need to be
made in "source/local.h"
- Edit the local.h file in the source directory and search for
#define GUEST_SESSTUP 0
Change the defined value to 2. This will have the effect of
making smbd validate users with and invalid password as the
guest account specified in smb.conf.
- Create your smb.conf as normal ****ATTENTION**** Be forewarned
that you should only put files that have been designated as public
access in the shares you defined. For shares that require user
validation, setup a second server.
- Install smbd & nmbd binaries and start Samba.
Assuming you have a share defined named [temp], you should be able
to perform the following command on an Windows 9x/NT machine
dir \\GUESTSERVER\temp
and get some valid output.
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Hope this helps,
j-
