How can I have a public area with no user/pass access on a smb server that do NOT use security = share? I have tried without success. N.b.: I need win* user and Mac user can access this public share. TIA, B. attached my smb.conf. ----------------- smb.conf ---------------- [global] workgroup = SAMBA netbios name = smbsvr server string = Samba PDC - Versione %v socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 os level = 64 preferred master = yes local master = yes domain master = yes security = user encrypt passwords = yes domain logons = yes add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -s /bin/false -M %u log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m log level = 2 max log size = 50 unix password sync = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *Retype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *Enter* new*UNIX*password* %n\n *Retype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *passwd: *all* authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon drive = H: logon script = netlogon.bat [homes] comment = Home Directory browseable = no writeable = yes [profiles] path = /home/profiles writeable = yes browseable = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 [netlogon] path = /home/netlogon read only = yes write list = @admin browseable = no [shared] comment = Shared Folder path = /home/Public writable = yes public = yes printable = no [pubblica] comment = Public Shared Folder available = yes browseable = yes path = /home/Public public = yes writable = yes force user = nobody force group = nobody create mask = 777 directory mask = 777