Tuesday 06 of February 2007 12:12:51 - Reyneke napisał(a): > Hi, > > I'm trying to get samba (v3.0.23d) going on an embedded system. Our initial > requirement is to get a very simple windows share operational. No security > required, read only anonymous access. With this in mind we followed the > guidelines as per the samba documentation: > > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/StandAloneServer >.html#simplynice > > Samba (smbd) crashes with a "failed to get pdb methods for backend guest" > message. After searching the mail archives I have my doubts as to whether > the conf line "passdb backend = guest" is correct. Tried "tbdsam" but then > I run into all kinds of access challenges from the clients. > > Because this is an _embedded_ system with limited user management, we want > samba to ignore all access operations. I.e. don't do any PAM, Unix > user/password checks. Just allow read access to the directory from any > Windows client/domain/workgroup. What is the simplest way of achieving > this? What are the etc/passwd file requirements? Anything else we need? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~ Conf file ~~~~~~~~~ > [global] > workgroup = MYGROUP > netbios name = MYSERVER > security = SHARE
Try to remove this line if you don't want any kind of security > passdb backend = guest > > > [data] > comment = Read only data > path = /data > guest only = yes Marcin -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
