Irving, Dave wrote:
Ah... Its got a bit more interesting... My server is now showing up when I explore the windows workgroup. I've added a public share area, with this config:
[publicShare] readOnly = No public = Yes browseable = Yes writeable = Yes path = /home/public
I can log in no problem if I supply my samba user name / password. The problem Im having is that if someone unknown to samba tries to access the share from an XP box, they are challenged for a username / password. I've set my "guest account" to "nobody" - and there is an entry for nobody in /etc/passwd - but other than that I've made no alterations. Is there something else I need to set-up to allow anonymous access?
you're missing the
guest ok = yes
in your section. From smb.conf
Sections may be designated guest services, in which case no password is required to access them. A specified UNIX guest account is used to define access privileges in this case.
Thanks,
Dave
Hth
Alex
