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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