Public Samba Server: Difference between revisions

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-In some situations, it is valuable to have unauthenticated access to a Samba server, where the username and password supplied by the client is ignored.
-To share (for example) /public_data on a Samba server first create an smb.conf with:
- [global]
-    map to guest = bad user
- [public]
-    path = /public_data
-    guest ok = yes
-To allow write access to the share change it to:
- [public]
-   path = /public_data
-   guest ok = yes
-   read only = no
-Finally, ensure that the Samba guest account (typcially nobody) has the posix permissions to read and write (as appropriate) /data on your server's file system.
-For example, you may wish to give world read access with:
- chmod -R a+rX /public_data
-To change the guest account, set:
- [global]
-  guest account = samba_guest
-  map to guest = bad user
-This configuration will still permit authentication - any user in your Samba password database (passdb.tdb, smbpasswd etc) can still authenticate, as long as the username is correct.
-To test access to the share will work regardless of username specified by the client, run:
- smbclient //server/public -Unot_a_user%foo
- smb> ls
- smb> get file
-(where file is a file in /public_data)