I am a bit rusty on this sort of question, but: Maybe you have somethings in your global section screening out visitors?
Maybe a firewall problem? How are the visiting laptops assigned ip's and names? Joel On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:21:14PM -0700, J. Nyhuis wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to set up a "Public" share that visitors who do not > have accounts in our system have ro access to, while staff members > (who do have accounts) have rw access. > Our department has visitors who plug laptops into our network who > will only be there once, and want to copy some of our software. However, > with the following share definition, staff have rw access, but visitors > can't even browse. > > My share definition is as follows: > > [public] > comment = Filespace Everyone can Access > path = /shares/Public/ > browseable = yes > public = yes > read only = yes > write list = @staff # read only, except for people in the "staff" group > > What am I missing? Do I need a "guest" account at the unix level or > something? (or would that be "Guest"). > > Thanks in advance for the advice. > John H. Nyhuis > systems administration > Cell Systems Initiative > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
