[K12OSN] smbldap and XP Home - non-domain member access

[Rob Owens]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:55:52AM -0400, David Whitmer wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Rob Owens <rowens at bio-chemvalve.com> wrote:
> >
> > If I use the smbldap-installer scripts, will I still be able to create a
> > Samba share that is accessible to non-domain members?  For instance, XP
> > Home Edition machines (which do not have the ability to join a domian).
> >
> > My understanding of a windows domain is that all shares and services are
> > only available to domain members.  I'd like to be able to bypass that
> > rule with my soon-to-be smbldap setup, if possible.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
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> 
> Do you want the XP Home Edition users to have to supply a username &
> password when access the Samba shares?
> 
> In our setup, XP Home Edition users can easily access our file server's
> Samba shares by just supplying their domain username & password when
> prompted for those.  (We'd used the smbldap-installer scripts, too.)
> 

That's good to know.  I was actually looking for a way to let them access a share with no authentication, though.  Similar to security=share in smb.conf. 

Thanks for the info everybody.

-Rob