On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 02:40:59PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 14:15 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
I am still pretty confused smb.conf but no password is required.
Confused about what specifically?
"map to guest = Bad Password" means that any failed authentication attempt just gets connected as the guest user. "guest ok = yes" for the share means that the guest user has access to the share.
The assumption is that : (a) "guest account = somebody" where "somebody" is a valid account. (b) the underlying filesystem permissions allow "somebody" access to the folder indicated by "path" in the share definition.
Bah, all files from /usr/share/samba/templates/ are empty. Bad. Else it wouild be easy to get a diff.
Eh?
The intention was to place separate viewes - named section in ini speach - of the default configuration into single files. And it looks like this is broken or even unused. If IIRC we created these snippets for YaST to allow the reset of an individual section to it's defaults. I have to check back with the YaST guys.
"guest ok = Yes" for each share pretty much took care of the only issue that was stopping it from just working. I had already properly configured the other two changes needed in smb.conf. Well, it's very polite to keep these other two secret issues for you. ;) Look, others migth later run into the same trouble, find this thread and are faced by issues as well. But the lame dudes of the openSUSE lists kept this secret well hidden. Come on, make the others and all of us happy too!
I assume those other two changes where the two entries required in [globals]. A working config is -
[global] security = user
This is the Samba upstream default.
map to guest = Bad Password
This is the default we set in /etc/samba/smb.conf installed with the samba-client package. Therefore no further changes than 'guest ok = yes' as part of the share definition are required. I've tested it and that's even proofen by the 3.6.3 code. I also don't see commits to master which might have changed this. IIRC Jiri added a simple tick to allow guest access to a share in the YaST module.
- taken directly from the link previously posted to the project documentation. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#guest_access
Yes. IIRC one quoted this URL earlier in this thread too. Then it must be correct. ;) On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 02:42:32PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 14:29 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 05:36:37AM -0700, Steven Hess wrote:
"guest ok = yes" for each share makes it password-less if you have guests enabled and "security = share" set. Setting 'security = share' is not a must requirement to get a public accessible share.
I believe it is also deprecated in the latest Samba releases (???). At least there was talk about doing so on samba-technical.
"security=share" has never actually worked correctly/intuitively anyway.
'security = server' is depricated. Cheers, Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany