Browse Samba server from XP

[Irving, Dave]

I tried this exact configuration:

Try adding the following section to your smb.conf

[publicShare]
    path = /home/public
    browseable = Yes
    writeable = No
    guest ok = Yes

... Users were still challenged for a password :o(
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Apprich [mailto:a.apprich at science-computing.de] 
Sent: 01 March 2005 14:50
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Browse Samba server from XP

Dave,

Irving, Dave wrote:
> Now im really confused... I thought that the guest account was 
> supposed to exist in /etc/passwd? I've obviously got the wrong end of 
> the stick from the docs I've read.

No, as soon a you use a user that exists either in /etc/passwd or smbpasswd
you have to auth. the user.

> 
> So what should guest account be? If its not meant to be in /etc/passwd 
> or smbpasswd, should it just be a random name? (If so, I tried that - 
> and I still got challenged for a user name / password...?)
> 

AFAIK guest doesn't work if you want to modify files/directories.

Try adding the following section to your smb.conf

[publicShare]
    path = /home/public
    browseable = Yes
    writeable = No
    guest ok = Yes

then kill all smbd/nmbd processes or restart xinetd if xinetd serves your
samba.

Hth

Alex

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