samba - Sep 2003 - Q: Share Definitions, how to make a 'truely public' area

Greetings,

	I am trying to set up a "Public" share that visitors who do not
have accounts in our system have ro access to, while staff members
(who do have accounts) have rw access.
	Our department has visitors who plug laptops into our network who
will only be there once, and want to copy some of our software.  However,
with the following share definition, staff have rw access, but visitors
can't even browse.

My share definition is as follows:

[public]
        comment = Filespace Everyone can Access
        path = /shares/Public/
        browseable = yes
        public = yes
        read only = yes
        write list = @staff # read only, except for people in the
"staff" group

What am I missing?  Do I need a "guest" account at the unix level or
something?  (or would that be "Guest").

	Thanks in advance for the advice.
John H. Nyhuis
systems administration
Cell Systems Initiative

I am a bit rusty on this sort of question, but:

Maybe you have somethings in your global section screening out visitors?

Maybe a firewall problem? 

How are the visiting laptops assigned ip's and names? 

Joel
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:21:14PM -0700, J. Nyhuis
wrote:
> 	Greetings,
> 
> 	I am trying to set up a "Public" share that visitors who do not
> have accounts in our system have ro access to, while staff members
> (who do have accounts) have rw access.
> 	Our department has visitors who plug laptops into our network who
> will only be there once, and want to copy some of our software.  However,
> with the following share definition, staff have rw access, but visitors
> can't even browse.
> 
> My share definition is as follows:
> 
> [public]
>         comment = Filespace Everyone can Access
>         path = /shares/Public/
>         browseable = yes
>         public = yes
>         read only = yes
>         write list = @staff # read only, except for people in the
"staff" group
> 
> What am I missing?  Do I need a "guest" account at the unix level
or
> something?  (or would that be "Guest").
> 
> 	Thanks in advance for the advice.
> John H. Nyhuis
> systems administration
> Cell Systems Initiative
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