Samba and guest user

[Josef Forman]

Hi,
I use RedHat ES 3. Samba authentication is set to the DC server (I use users map file). Everything works well, but now i want to allow access to one directory without password checking. The problem is when somebody out of domain access the share - window for name/password appears.

pieces of samba configuration:
[global]
guest account = nobody
map to guest = Bad User
security = server
[share]
path = /bla/bla
browseable = Yes
public = Yes
writable = Yes
printable = No
guest ok = Yes
share modes = Yes
force user = nobody
force group = nobody
force create mode = 0775
force directory mode = 0775


Any idea?

[RAC_1]

Put in a valied users setting for that share.
valid users = abc, xyz

Resart samba.

[Ross Minkov]

Since you are using nobody for the guest account, make sure you don't have it listed under invalid users too.

[Josef Forman]

I need public share, so i assume i don't need parametr valid users.

nobody account is not in invalid parametr

[Josef Forman]

is not invalid USER :)

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can try using the map to guest parameter:

Map to guest = bad password


Insted of bad user. If a valid user tryes to connect, is not a bad user, is a bad password.

[Steven E. Protter]

I reccommend against allowing users not explicitly set up in Linux to access the share.

A few ways to do that.

You can diable the guest user, manually add the users you want and use the smbpasswd command to set their passwords. These authorized users will be prompted when they first access.

You can if you wish allow Linus to accept LDAP or ADS users by usering a different security scheme. This should not display the Windows user/password.

Also, if this information is flying around the network there is an issue with Windows that needs to be dealt with.

SEP