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Old 12-08-2011
Samba server guest connections
Hi,


I am trying to comprehend Samba's behaviour on one of my Arch systems and thus I'd like to ask a couple of quick questions:


The setup I'd like to build is just a small home network for file-sharing using guest connections.

Here it goes,


1) When using the following settings for guest connections,
map to guest = bad user guest account = nobody
does user 'nobody' have to exist both on Samba AND on the system's accounts?
If yes, is there any other way I can use Samba to serve guest connections without the need to create their respective system accounts? Why is that so?


2) If I change the second option to
guest account = myUnixAccountName
I notice that the system works perfectly well and serves guest connections just fine.
But how is that possible since myUnixAccountName doesn't exist on Samba?


Thanks in advance!
 
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masktest

MASKTEST(1)							  [FIXME: manual]						       MASKTEST(1)

NAME

       masktest - Find differences in wildcard matching between Samba's implementation and that of a remote server.

SYNOPSIS

       masktest {//server/share} [-U user%pass] [-d debuglevel] [-W workgroup] [-n numloops] [-s seed] [-a] [-E] [-M max protocol] [-f filechars]
		[-m maskchars] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       masktest is a utility for detecting differences in behaviour between Samba's own implementation and that of a remote server. It will run
       generate random filenames/masks and check if these match the same files they do on the remote file as they do on the local server. It will
       display any differences it finds.

       This utility is used by the Samba team to find differences in behaviour between Samba and Windows servers.

OPTIONS

       -U user%pass
	   Specify the user and password to use when logging on on the shares. This parameter can be specified twice (once for the first server,
	   once for the second).

       -s seed
	   Seed the random number generator with the specified value.

       -n numops
	   Set the number of operations to perform.

       -a
	   Print the operations that are performed.

       -M max_protocol
	   Maximum protocol to use.

       -f
	   Specify characters that can be used when generating file names. Default: abcdefghijklm.

       -E
	   Abort when difference in behaviour is found.

       -m maskchars
	   Specify characters used for wildcards.

       -v
	   Be verbose

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       Samba

AUTHOR

       This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2].

       masktest was written by Andrew Tridgell.

       This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.

NOTES

	1. Samba
	   http://www.samba.org/

	2. Samba Team
	   http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

[FIXME: source] 						    04/16/2014							       MASKTEST(1)