Comment 7 for bug 32067
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| casualprogrammer (casualprogrammer) wrote Re: the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf | #7 |
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(Get the code!)
The real issue here is, that
;security = user
is not achieving anything at all, since security = user is a Samba built in default, commenting it out would be the solution if it wasn't there already. So either you use
;security = share
which is the same as
security = user
or just uncommented as
security = share
when you want to share.
The problem lies in the fact, that not all Windows users will have an account on the Linux workstation sharing something.
They can only access the share with
security = share
There is a realtively thorough discussion in the man smb.conf, also some workarounds are given.
If you want to see what your smb.conf REALLY is translated into, just do
testparm -v
if you do this with an empty smb.conf you can see what defaults are there already.
In addition having
invalid users = root
is a real show stopper and should be commented out in the sample file. If this is set,
cupsaddsmb
( and presumably other functionality as well ) will not work, and present the average user with a problem he will not be able to solve easily. At least there should be some remarks on this.