samba - Mar 2015 - SOLVED: Re: Windows XP sees fedora14/samba3 shares but not fedora20/samba4 shares

On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 21:59 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> try adding 'map to guest = Bad User' to smb.conf
> 
> Rowland
> 
IT WORKED!!!  THANK YOU.
Now the XP machine can see both the f14 and f20 shares.  (It was not
even necessary to restart nmbd or smbd on the f20 machines.)

Now, if I'm not asking for too much, can you please explain why this
worked.  :-)

Many thanks again.

	-Al

On 07/03/15 02:02, Al Schapira wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 21:59 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
>
>> try adding 'map to guest = Bad User' to smb.conf
>>
>> Rowland
>>
> IT WORKED!!!  THANK YOU.
> Now the XP machine can see both the f14 and f20 shares.  (It was not
> even necessary to restart nmbd or smbd on the f20 machines.)
>
> Now, if I'm not asking for too much, can you please explain why this
> worked.  :-)
>
> Many thanks again.
>
> 	-Al
>
>
>
Try reading 'man smb.conf', it is explained in there.

Rowland

From: Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 09:09:27 +0000
> On 07/03/15 02:02, Al Schapira wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 21:59 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>
>>> try adding 'map to guest = Bad User' to smb.conf
>>>
>>> Rowland
>>>
>> IT WORKED!!!  THANK YOU.
>> Now the XP machine can see both the f14 and f20 shares.  (It was not
>> even necessary to restart nmbd or smbd on the f20 machines.)
>>
>> Now, if I'm not asking for too much, can you please explain why
this
>> worked.  :-)
Because on your f14 box, "security = share" is set, instead of 
"security = user".

"security = share" is now marked as deprecated, so f20's setting
is
better now.

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