Smbnull or nobody

[Avarsang Shankar]

When I install CIFS (smaba) on HP, where can we set or how do we know that the default user is smbnull ?

[Brian Bergstrand]

The default guest user is nodbody. If you want to use smbnull, then add the following to your smb.conf file.

guest account = smbnull

This avoids some minor problems caused by the nobody acct having negative a uid/gid.

HTH.

[Steve Steel]

Hi

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html#HP%20CIFS

Then

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B8724-90044.pdf

Chapter 5 71
username=name Username sent to server. By default, the HP CIFS
Client accesses the server under the same user name
as the login name of the user. If you have a different
Commandline Utilities
mount_cifs, umount_cifs
user name at the server, you may use this option to set
that name. It is ignored if you are already logged in at
the server.


Steve Steel

[Darren Prior]

Hi and welcome to the forums,

The install scripts for CIFS will create the default CIFS user as smbnull. If you wish to change this, then you'll need to create a user on the system (eg using SAM or useradd) then edit the smb.conf to set "guest account = whatever_you_chose" this can be set on a share by share basis.

There's further documentation on this in the smb.conf man page, also in the O'Reilly Using Samba book - a copy of which is available on your CIFS server, point your browser at http://yourservername:901

regards,

Darren

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Add the following line to your global section of the smb.conf file.

guest account = smbnull

Robert-Jan.

[Steven E. Protter]

A standard CIFS/9000 install does set up a guest user called smbbull on the system.

smbnull:*:101:101:DO NOT USE OR DELETE - needed by Samba:/home/smbnull:/sbin/sh


It can be used as the guest account with the config changes noted earlier.

/sbin/init.d/samba stop
/sbin/init.d/samba start

is necessary.

Even if you don't use it as a guest account, you should not delete the account. I don't use it and the warning is obvious, leave it alone.

SEP