On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:42, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:06, Brian Parish wrote:
> 
> > This is undoubtedly the wrong way to do it, but it's easy and works
> > every time.  If you are happy to have no security on this at all, set
> > guest only access and make the guest account root (presumably this is
> > the owner of /tmp).  Also set samba to use share level access instead of
> > user level.
> > 
> > This makes it wide open to any client machine on your LAN, but that
> > seems to be what you want anyway.
> > 
> > HTH
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
> You're right, I just want to briefly transfer a number of files over.  I
> think I have it set up now as you mentioned above, but still cannot
> browse below the workgroup from the Win2000 machine.  These are the
> relevent sections of smb.conf I have.  Any issues?
> 
> [Global]
> null passwords = yes
> dns proxy = no
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> security = share
> os level = 65
> map to guest = bad user
> max log size = 50
> read only = no
> path = /tmp
> guest only = yes
> encrypt passwords = yes
> printer admin = @adm
> workgroup = MDKGROUP
> printcap name = cups
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> printing = cups
> preload = global homes printers
> server string = Samba Server %v
> guest account = root
> default service = global
> username map = /etc/samba/user.map
> guest ok = yes
> 
> <snip>
> 
> [temp]
> comment = Temporary file space
> path = /tmp
> read only = no
> guest ok = yes

I think you need to have "guest only = yes" under [temp] as well as in
the global section.

HTH
Brian


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