samba - Nov 1998 - Getting share list without password.

Hi.

samba-1.9.18p8 using security = user. All the stuff runs good. But I want a
cosmetic customization.

I want to be able to get the list of shares on the linux box w/out having to
fill in a password (same as winBoxes do):

smbclient -L linuxbox -U user -N

Should not prompt for password. But in fact, it does. I supposed this could be
produced by a wrong guest account. I have 'guest account = nobody' and
here's
the password nobody's entry:

nobody:x:-2:-2:nobody:/tmp:/bin/bash

Is this a valid guest account for samba purposes? If not, what might be failing?

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A little bit of additional info.

When I do the 'smbclient -L linuxbox -U user' (w/out the -N) I get a
password
prompt. If I simply press <enter> I get the share list of that linux box.
Equals
with the correct password for user.

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Hello and thank you for your reply.

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:19:43 -0800, you wrote:
>  Use smbclient -L linuxbox -U%
>
>This will connect with the guest login and no password
Ok. This goes fine.
>Use smbclient -L linuxbox -Uuser%
>
>to connect as user "user" with no password
More of the same thing :-(. smbclient keeps requesting for password. In fact,
this is the case I want. I don't want a 'fill in IPC$ share
password' dialogbox
when clients connect from windoz.

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