Re: Samba help.

[John Darrah <xyllyx@gmail.com>]

On 1/29/2017 11:25 AM, John Darrah wrote:
> On 1/29/2017 12:25 AM, R. Ramesh wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my debian jesse to 8.6. All of a sudden all samba 
> > guest access to this box stopped working. I did not update smb.conf 
> > file any time before or after.  I vaguely remember that there was a 
> > flash of notes flying by when samba was upgraded, but do not recall 
> > what it is.
> >
> > BTW, I can mount if I provide an actual valid user with password. 
> > Only guest access does not work.
> >
> > Linux host 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 
> > (2016-10-19) i686 GNU/Linux
> > Samba Version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2
> >
> > Guest access to the following share fails after the upgrade:
> >
> > [data]
> >     path = /data
> >     create mask = 0755
> >     directory mask = 0755
> >     public = yes
> >     browseable = yes
> >     writable = yes
> >     guest ok = yes
> >
> > If it is not too much trouble, please copy me your responses
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ramesh
> Check to see that smb.conf was not replaced. If it was, the previous 
> version will be called smb.conf.dpkg-dist or smb.conf.ucf-dist. You 
> will have to compare them with your smb.conf file and merge any 
> differences.
>
> -- john
Also check the following in [global] settings:

Change:

   map to guest = Bad User

to:

    map to guest = nobody

-- john