Re: samba - "guest ok" doesn't work
In looking around some more, it looks like this is indeed the correct
behavior for "security = user" unless I add the following:
map to guest = Bad Password
or
map to guest = Bad User
Otherwise I need to switch to
security = share
Thanks,
Gerry
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Peter Horton wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:14:34PM -0700, debuser@platinum.globalmart.com wrote:
> > I want Windows users on my network to be able to print to my printer
> > without a password. I have "guest ok = yes" in the printers share. I also
> > have "security = user" in the global section. Shouldn't this allow
> > printing without a password? Currently it does not. Printing does work
> > fine with a correct username and password from the Windows machines
> > though. But, it always prompts for a password, and if the password is
> > incorrect or blank, it fails. Does "guest ok" only work when "security =
> > share"? Any ideas what might be wrong?
> >
>
> There's an option that controls how unknown users / passwords
> are mapped to the guest account (man smb.conf) which I had to
> tweak to get guest access to shares without a password.
>
> HTH,
>
> P.
>
>
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