sibarrick Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Does anyone here know the answer to this.... I've setup a Linux machine that will hopefully work as a file server to a windows network. I have samba and swat configured and I can create a shared folder under a specific user and then see it on the windows network, so far so good. The problem is I want to share the folder in such a way that any windows user can access it without having to log into it as the user under which it was created. Eg. On the linux box I have a folder /home/testshare - created as user render on windows as user foo I can browse to my linux box and access the folder by logging in as render, but I have to do this every time I reboot, I'd like it to be seemless like it is on windows. Anyone on our domain can log onto a shared render folder on the windows server. How do I set things up that way under samba? There is a huge amount of information out there on setting up samba but I can't find anything that seems to help with this specific problem, so I'm hoping one of you linux gurus on here might be able to help. cheers - and try and refrain from using phrases like don't use windows.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redpaw Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 You should be able to put a line into the samba config file that sets that share as guest allow which makes it accessable to anyone.. check the swat settings.. havene't used swat in years, so it might have changed.. good luck -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEO-oo- Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 redpaw seems to be right - add this to the share-config in the smb.conf: browseable = yes writable = yes create mode = 0777 directory mode = 0777 guest = yes only guest = yes Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted January 30, 2007 Author Share Posted January 30, 2007 cheers guys I try it tomorrow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 cheers guys I try it tomorrow! It works!! Had to set the security to Share too, that did the trick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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