I tried this although I still get promted for a username and password from windows boxes when I try to connect to this samba share.  

I created the guest account by adduser and did not name it guest.  But when I do log in I do not see the share I see .alias, .bash_profile, .bashrc and .cshrc files.  I have actually ran

"chown -R guestusername:guestusername /foldername/" 
and still when connected via samba to the share I do not actually see the contents of the share 

I would like to have anyone on the network without username and password (without a prompt presented) be able to read this share 
 


Jim
> 
> From: Daniel Montagnese <dmontagnese@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/09/12 Fri PM 12:59:53 EDT
> To: elemint@cox.net
> Subject: samba
> 
> Try:
> 
> #################################
> 
> [data_area]
> 
> 	comment = Shared Data
> 	path = /the/data
> 	security = share
> 	guest account = guest
> 	guest = ok
> 	null passwords = yes
> 	browseable = yes
> 	writeable = no
> 	
> #####################
> 
> All the best,
> Daniel F. Montagnese:w
> 
> 
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