Setting up a Share Without Authentication
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In some scenarios, expecially on standalone servers, it might be a requirement, to provide a share, that is accessable without authentication (anonymous access).
Two smb.conf directives are required in the [global] section, to allow anonymous access on shares in the later step:
[global] workgroup = MYWORKGROUP ## Keep this two lines on their current value, if security = user ## you're doing this on a host that is part of a domain map to guest = Bad user guest account = nobody
For the share, that should be accessable without login, use the following configuration:
[MyShare] comment = Anonymous Samba Share path = /srv/samba/anonymous_share/ guest ok = yes read only = yes|no # Optionally you can map the anonymous user to a local user/group, if necessary. force user = myuser force group = mygroup