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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 +0000
From:      David Larkin <david.larkin@djl.co.uk>
To:        Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SAMBA newbie
Message-ID:  <20050310185932.6a965cd8@sparrow>
In-Reply-To: <20050311021240.9F16.LUKEK@meibin.net>
References:  <20050310182852.0a9e0951@sparrow> <20050311021240.9F16.LUKEK@meibin.net>

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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900
Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 +0000
> David Larkin <david.larkin@djl.co.uk> spake thus:
> 
> > I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box.
> > 
> > I am the only user of both.
> > 
> > I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver.
> > 
> > I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD.
> > 
> > I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea.
> > 
> > Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? 
> > 
> > After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give.
> > 
> > Any advice ?
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> Hello,
> If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have
> several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest
> account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to
> think of but two.
> 
> HTH
> 
> LukeK
> 

Thanks, I don't want to use any passwords, enrypted or otherwise

The guest account sounds interesing.

I've commented out the following in smb.conf

# This one is useful for people to share files
[tmp]
   comment = Temporary file space
   path = /tmp
   read only = no
   public = yes


should this allow everyone on both machines to write to the /tmp directory but not execute anything there ? 

I still get challenged for a username/password on the XP directory.
guest/guest and nobody/nobody   both fail

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