I changed the Samba security mode from share to user and added a couple of users to allow some writable shares. Now the MS-Windows machines are insisting on a username/password to access the *anonymous* (guest ok yes) printers and the one read-only public file system. How do I fix this? Do I *have* to configure a real-live guest user? Is there a way to allow some file systems anonymous access *without* a username/pasword and some file system write access with a username/password? Or is mess-windows too stupid to handle this? -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 11:48 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:> I changed the Samba security mode from share to user and added a couple > of users to allow some writable shares. Now the MS-Windows machines are > insisting on a username/password to access the *anonymous* (guest ok > yes) printers and the one read-only public file system. How do I fix > this? Do I *have* to configure a real-live guest user? Is there a way to > allow some file systems anonymous access *without* a username/pasword > and some file system write access with a username/password? Or is > mess-windows too stupid to handle this?I assume you have mapped guest to a valid user account on the Samba server?
At Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:48:21 -0400 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:> > I changed the Samba security mode from share to user and added a couple > of users to allow some writable shares. Now the MS-Windows machines are > insisting on a username/password to access the *anonymous* (guest ok > yes) printers and the one read-only public file system. How do I fix > this? Do I *have* to configure a real-live guest user? Is there a way to > allow some file systems anonymous access *without* a username/pasword > and some file system write access with a username/password? Or is > mess-windows too stupid to handle this?Nevermind. I switched the security mode back to share and mess-windows seems to be happy...>-- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk