samba - Sep 2023 - anonymous samba server with unauthenticated guest access policy

Hi!

What's the best way to have an anonymous samba server (with read-only
shares only, users can't modify anything) with todays windows which
block unauthenticated guest access by default and require signing?

Is the only solution (besides unblocking which is not nice) is to add
this server to the domain in question?

Thanks!

/mjt

On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:39:00 +0300
Michael Tokarev via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> What's the best way to have an anonymous samba server (with read-only
> shares only, users can't modify anything) with todays windows which
> block unauthenticated guest access by default and require signing?
> 
> Is the only solution (besides unblocking which is not nice) is to add
> this server to the domain in question?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> /mjt
> 
Hi Michael, it is my understanding that if it is the Windows machine
that has guest access turned off, then there is nothing that Samba can
do to re-enable it, so you must use authenticated users.

Rowland