Hi Eve
Eve Atley wrote:
Sorry if my subject is misleading. What I am hoping to do is give 'guest' access to our 'public' directory (home/shared/public and nothing else) for consultants who visit us inside the office on a case-by-case basis. This is to enable consultants to share files across the network when they visit.
Right now, we use Samba credentials (ie. Somebody/password) on our Redhat 9 box, and match their computer logon (Somebody/password) to that so people don't have to enter a special username/password to connect to our server. Therefore, all our employees have their own username/password combo on their computers, as well as their own samba username/password that matches.
So say Joe comes in as a consultant, logged in as joe/computerpassword. Obviously, when he attempts to access our server, he recieves a prompt asking him for a username/password, since no joe/computerpassword exists on our Linux box.
So how would you handle this? By creating a guest/guest account on the Linux box that allows access to only /home/public, then giving that info to a consultant on an as-needed basis? Or some other way?
Thanks,
Eve
I think this is what you're looking for:
[everyone] comment = Public guest directory browseable = yes writeable = yes path = /home/shared/public guest ok = yes public = yes printable = no force create mode = 0777 force directory mode = 0777 create mode = 0777 security mask = 0777
And in the global section: map to guest = Bad User
Make sure the permissions for directory /home/shared/public are 0777.
This configuration literally allows everyone to connect with r/w access, no matter what username/password they use.
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