[Pc_Support] Samba Config Question

Phil Barnett philb at philb.us
Sun Oct 2 13:56:17 EDT 2005


On Sunday 02 October 2005 12:05 pm, Tim McDonough wrote:
> I have a Debian Linux system that runs Samba 3.0.14a to serve up files
> for a home network with 3 Windows machines. How can I configure Samba
> so that there is one directory that is available to anything on the
> network without having to enter a login name or password? Everything
> works as I want it for other directories for specific accounts/users.

To my knowledge, there is always a user associated with SMB shares. But, you 
can put the user id and password in the fstab that automounts the share like 
this:

in /etc/fstab

//smb/pub  /mnt/dir   smbfs   username=me,password=XoXoX 0 0


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