tlug: Samba progress . . . but

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

Thanks to everybody who posted advice on dealing with Samba.  With your
help, I now have it doing pretty much everything I want.  It shows the
public upload directory.  It shows the public download directory.  That's
great.

But it's doing one thing that I don't want, and so far nothing I've tried
putting in or out of smb.conf has had any effect on this at all. Despite
the fact that it is set for security = share, it asks for a password to
access those files.  But that's not exactly what I had in mind.  Setting
that to share under Windows allows anyone on my LAN to access those
directories - no questions asked - at the permission level the directories 
are set to.  One is set to read-only, one is set to read and write.
Nobody has to supply a password, the whole idea is that these two
directories are *public* and that is supposed to mean that anyone can
access them freely.


The entries for those two directories are:

[download]
  comment = Public download directory
  path = /w95/public-download
  public = yes
  writable = yes
  only guest = no
  create mode = 0755
  write list = root,jonathan

[upload]
  comment = Public upload directory
  path = /w95/pubic-upload
  public = yes
  writable = yes
  create mode =0755
  printable = no


Thanks for everything so far, and TIA for pushing me over this last
hurdle!	

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution!
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