RE: [Sheflug] Samba question

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>Can someone please tell me how I can get a WinXX user which doesn't have an
>account on the Linux box to be able to access a Samba shared directory.
>
>I've messed around with /etc/smbusers to no avail. WinXX users who can
>telnet into their own account on the Linux box can access the directories
>via Samba OK.
>
>I must be omitting something pretty basic I reckon.
>
>Steve

 You need to configure the guest option.

I'm at work, and can't remember the ins and outs, but just read man samba, 
it's
all there in the config options section.

 General idea is
guest "yes"
guest_user "nobody" # (or you could make a samba_guest user for example)

 Baz.

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