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...iled to get pdb methods for backend guest" message. After searching the mail archives I have my doubts as to whether the conf line "passdb backend = guest" is correct. Tried "tbdsam" but then I run into all kinds of access challenges from the clients. Because this is an _embedded_ system with limited user management, we want samba to ignore all access operations. I.e. don't do any PAM, Unix user/password checks. Just allow read access to the directory from any Windows client/domain/workgroup. What is the simplest way of achieving this? What are the etc/passwd file re...

I am using centOS for my server and centOS is extremely stable. I almost love centOS more than my wife. However, centOS is a bit heavy to run on my notebook (P III 1G, 256MB RAM). I need gnome, firefox, openoffice, realplayer, gaim, acrobat and thunderbird on my notebook, but if I install all of them (plus base-system), my notebook becomes very slow. I wish I could have a lighter version of centOS