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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: cosmos on March 29, 2006, 08:25:58 AM

Title: 7.0rc1: Windows shares without asking for pass?
Post by: cosmos on March 29, 2006, 08:25:58 AM

Hello everybody,

first I'd like to congratulate you for an excellent product! I've been intending to start using SME for quite some time, so I feel sad I have not done this before.

In any case, I just installed 7.0 rc1 in a classroom, to provide tutoring on what an open-source custom distro can do ;)
- The clients are all Windows 2000 systems
- ... operating as a workgroup, rather than a domain
- sme server is operating in server-only mode

I've searched in this forum for a solution to my problem, yet a related thread was dated back to 2004, so perhaps a better solution is now in place.

The problem I have is this: I want to create a storage where users can download stuff, without specifying user and password. I configured the i-bay to have "write: admin / read: everybody" permissions. Unfortunately, the users are still asked for a user/password pair (I must admit I don't know if the "everybody" read permission means that I _do_ have to enter some, let's say, "null" account and/or pass). So 2 questions:

1) Is it possible to provide users read access to i-bays, without them being asked for authority credentials _and_ without modifying smb.conf or other files?

2) If it is not possible, what would you recommened as an "elegant" way to achieve this?

Thank you in advance for any advice offered :)

Title: 7.0rc1: Windows shares without asking for pass?
Post by: Boris on March 29, 2006, 10:30:28 PM

"everybody" on SME means "everybody who have a valid SME (samba) account".
You could create a user on SME with the same name/password as your workstations default logon and it will result in the silent logon to SME.

Title: 7.0rc1: Windows shares without asking for pass?
Post by: cliff on March 30, 2006, 01:06:56 AM

In Win2000, you can save a username and password to auto login to SME, even if you don’t require a username to log in to Windows.

Title: 7.0rc1: Windows shares without asking for pass?
Post by: cosmos on March 30, 2006, 07:19:53 AM

Thanks for the suggestions. I concur then that an account is required under all circumstances. Will try to setup the same user account on both sme as well as on the clients then :)

Title: 7.0rc1: Windows shares without asking for pass?
Post by: mrjhb3 on March 30, 2006, 07:49:48 AM

removed by me.  I didn't read the question correctly, so my answer didn't apply to your question/issue.  Is there a setting that could be made in smb.conf to allow guest access to that share so there wouldn't be a need for a password?

Title: 7.0rc1: Windows shares without asking for pass?
Post by: Amir Inbar on April 12, 2006, 04:59:46 PM

I think you can use a windows "logon script" - a batch file that will map the i-bay to a local drive/
somthing like :
create a shared folder on your i-bay
create a user on sme with the default logon name that all the workstations has.
create a batch file for the workstations containing :

net use z: \\SMEserver\username password /user:username /persistent:yes


create shortcut for the batch file at the startup of all the workstations

Title: 7.0rc1: Windows shares without asking for pass?
Post by: MSmith on April 15, 2006, 04:30:22 PM

Yes, there is such a setting to allow guest access with no passwords, and it was simple enough to set up in SME 6 but I haven't gotten it to work in SME 7.  It would involve messing about with templates, I believe, unless someone can point us to the appropriate setprop command!  The developers are not too keen on helping anyone figure this out because it bypasses LAN security, which most folks feel is a no-no.  I personally feel that it is appropriate for small offices and certainly eases administration, but that's just me.