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. -- the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome sharing broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
