samba configuration

[fatcodeguy]

I'm in an environment with only XP, ME or Win 2000 machines, and this one linux box. I want everyone to have read/write/delete access to one folder, let's say /home/public . This is what I have for the folder conf in smb.conf

[public]
path = /home/public/
public = yes
only guest = yes
writable = yes

Now do I need to create individual accounts on the linux box corresponding to each windows user? do they have to be same password and username? Appreciate all the help. thanks

 

[dan]

Create a guest user (ie smbuser) on your Linux box. Then define the guest user (in global or share)
guest =smbuser

Assign smbuser as the owner of the directories and files.
Then anyone who browse the network can get to these files and do anything with them. If however you are using domain authentication, then it would work for anyone logged on to the domain.
Dan

 

[Centauri]

Question:

What security do you use user domain ?