smb guest account

[Marcel Kunath]

Hello,

got a smb question.

I used to run 2.0 and it worked fine. I had normal users and then a guest user
with NULL PASSWD.

I switched to 2.2 and I try to set up the same thing but I can't manage to get
them both working simultaneously. I can have either one working just fine. I
narrowed it down to encrypt passwords = (yes/no). I try to override the general
user settings by a config file for my special guest user but it won't work.

single smb.conf file used:


smb.conf encrypt=yes       encrypt=no

user     works             doesnt
guest    doesnt            works


smb.conf and smb.conf.guest used:

smb.conf              encrypt=yes                      encrypt=no
smb.conf.guest  encrypt=yes      encrypt=no    encrypt=yes      encrypt=no

user            works             works        doesnt           doesnt
guest           doesnt            doesnt       works            works


It seems like the config file is not being read to override the values it is
suppose to override. The user is named guest and the file smb.conf.guest

There is no log messages.

# cat smb.conf

[global]
        workgroup = WORKGROUP
        server string = Samba %v on %L
        domain logons = yes

        security = user

        os level = 34
        local master = yes
        preferred master = yes
        domain master = yes
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY

        guest account = guest
; THE CONFIG FILE FOR USER GUEST:
        config file = /etc/smb.conf.%U

;ENCRYPTED PASSWORDS FOR NORMAL USERS
        encrypt passwords = yes
        smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd

;        logon script = %U.bat

[netlogon]
        comment = The domain logon service
        path = /etc/samba/logon
        public = no
        writeable = no
        browseable = no

[share-drive1]
        path = /share-drive1
        comment = Network Drive
        create mode = 644
        writeable = yes
        guest ok = yes



# cat smb.conf.guest

[global]
        workgroup = WORKGROUP
        server string = Samba %v on %L
        domain logons = yes

        security = user

        os level = 34
        local master = yes
        preferred master = yes
        domain master = yes
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY

        guest account = guest
; THE CONFIG FILE FOR USER GUEST:
;        config file = /etc/smb.conf.%U

;UNENCRYPTED PASSWORDS FOR guest USER
        encrypt passwords = no
        smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd

;        logon script = %U.bat

[netlogon]
        comment = The domain logon service
        path = /etc/samba/logon
        public = no
        writeable = no
        browseable = no

[share-drive1]
        path = /share-drive1
        comment = Network Drive
        create mode = 644
        writeable = yes
        guest ok = yes

Thanks,

mk