Comment 52 for bug 32067
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| Charlie Halford (soupmonster) wrote Re: the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome sharing broken | #52 |
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I'm sorry, but I really do see the value of this being kept open. I realise that this method is inherently insecure, but it seems people are ignoring the substantial use-case of a Ubuntu newbie who is used to sharing his files in Windows, and is faced with the near-labyrinthine configuration of users in samba, or setting security=share themselves.
I am also a OS X user, and it would seem the approach you suggest mirrors very closely how their sharing setup works. That, too, is a huge problem, as some people simply do not want their username and password to be given out, or have to set up a new user and password for everyone who wants to access a certain folder. If defaulting to a guess user would work, with absolutely no set-up required on either side, then I guess that would be a viable solution, but I don't see how that would work without first prompting a windows user for a username and password when they try and connect to the folder.