I am trying to setup samba shares for guest access for my home network. All I want to do is provide guest access so each family member has a remotely accessible directory so they can copy over files they want to backup. I do not want to give family members user accounts on the linux box, just guest access for samba. This is an example of one of my shares in my smb.conf file:
security = share
[Backups-Rhonda]
path = /raid1/rhonda
guest ok = yes
guest account = nobody
guest only = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
The shared paths have file permissions 666. I used smbpasswd to give a password to the nobody account on my debian box. Using smbstatus -v I can see that the Service is indeed connected to the Windows client. On the Windows clients I can see the shares so samba appears to be working.
However, the authentication fails on the Windows boxes. I always get a dialog that says You do not have permission to access..... I have tried map network drive... but that fails with a Location is not available W:\ is not accessible Access is denied dialog. I tried the Connect using different credentials under Map Network Drive, but still the same error dialog.
How do I get the Windows boxes to authenticate properly for simple guest access?
Add the following to your [global] section:
guest account = nfsnobody
map to guest = bad user
And your public share could look something like:
[Backups-Rhonda]
path = /raid1/rhonda
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
public = yes
force user = root
force group = root
create mask = 666
directory mask = 666
security mask = 666
force create mode = 666
Make sure to restart the samba service.