Re: samba open share

[Rodney Richison <rodney@rcrcomputing.com>]

Ron Peterson wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:42:53PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I'm having trouble getting samba to quit asking for a name and password 
> > on an open share.
> >
> > How may I do this without affecting the other shares that do have name 
> > and password verification?
> > The below does not work.
> > [public]
> >       writable = yes
> >       path = /backup/files
> >       force group = rodney
> >       guest ok = yes
> >       force user = rodney
> >       hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
> >       hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.0/24
> >       public = yes
> >       browsable = yes
> >    
>
> See the 'map to guest' option in the smb.conf man page.  You probably
> want to use the 'Bad User' option.
>
>  
Hmmm, so there's not a way to disable authentication alltogether huh?  
Like with win98. No name to enter, just share..

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Rodney Richison
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