Topic: Anonymous access to an Ibay

[Terry]

Here's what I'm trying to do.  I have a departmental server, setup in server only mode, I do not want to add (well, the users don't want to keep track of yet another password) the users to the system.  I have an Ibay with some files that these people need to access, write access is ok but not needed.  I need to enable anonymous, or guest, access to the Ibay or to the system itself, which ever is needed.  Security really isn't an issue.  I believe in 5.1.2 guest access was open because I don't recall this being an issue then, now on 5.5 (I know, it's old) it won't allow access without a matching account.  The system will be on 6.0 as soon as I burn the ISO.
I've tried setting guest=Ok and the guest account as admin in the smb.conf (as a trial) and restart smb but no luck.
Anyone have any idea's?

[Ole J]

Since security isn't a matter, try setting "security = share" in smb.conf.

[Arne]

But the e-smith config system will write over chages in the smb.conf so the chages has to be done in the custom templates (??) (Really not an expert on that item)

[Terry Brummell]

I changed it (via templates, it's really not that hard!) and it worked....sort of.  Haven't had time to revisit this (or reply) due to work deadlines.  A few (all 2K workstations) are able to access the share, but others are still being asked for a username/password.  I'll take another look when time permits.

Terry

[Finchwizard]

If it's just a FTP server for inside the local network
I would just use FreeBSD 4.8 Release.

When you install, you install with Minium amount of stuff, and it asks if you want to setup a ftp server.

Very handy, and you can allow Anonymous FTP and let them dump stuff into a 'incoming' folder.....

Just a idea.

Finchwizard

[Terry]

Samba, not FTP, for access via Windows Networking, using ftp would be wayyyy over some of the users heads.