Topic: Samba Configuration -Help Requested

[ezingleman]

I use SME here at my home as an email/web/samba appliance.  I've been using FreeNAS for a share drive. It works well but I don't want three server PCs running around the clock running up my powerbill

How may I configure SAMBA within SME so that everyone on the local subnet may have unauthenticated access to the drive?

Thanks in advance,

Ernest

[mbachmann]

Look at /etc/samba/smb.conf. The entries you are interested in are
security and guest.

Do not alter the entries there. You have to use the SME template system.

Copy the files /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/smb.conf/11guestOk and 11security to /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/smb.conf/. If the directory is not there, create it. Edit the contents to

guest ok = yes
security = share

save,
expand template

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signal-event workgroup-update

[Note: normally you would run expand-template /etc/samba/smb.conf but here is or was a bug]

restart samba

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service smb restart

View smb.conf to confirm changes. Try it out.

If you are stuck, try searching for "expand template smb.conf" here in the forums.