Configure Samba to not require username/password to connect to shares

I would just use CIFS instead of SMB, install CIFS first:

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

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Then add an entry to /etc/fstab

//<your rasberry IP>/MUSIC "/media/BACKUP 01/System Backup/Music" cifs guest,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

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To get the correct uid (1000 in example above) use:

id username

Reboot your Pi and try accessing \\<your rasberry IP>\MUSIC

I'd like to stick with Samba (just now but I may end up switching after I've torn all of my hair out).

OK, here's a Samba config:

[global]
guest account = nobody

[shared]
 comment = \\%N\shared
 path = /path/samba/shared
 force user = nobody
 browsable = yes
 public = yes
 writable = yes
 guest ok = yes

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smbpasswd -an nobody
(press enter twice, enter no password)

ls -l /path/samba

drwxrwxrwx 2 root users 4096 Jan 22 21:15 shared/

ls -l /path/samba/shared
total 8
-rwxr--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 18 Jan 22 21:26 file2.txt*
-rwxr--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 11 Jan 22 21:11 file.txt*

Hi,

sorry for the delay.

I have run through what you posted and I now get this error:

http://screencast.com/t/iv9roD75

Can you post your smb.conf?

Hi,

sorry for delay. Here it is
smb.conf.txt

Hi,

I've changed the security to user and can now log in with a username and password.

Can you run through how to make this anonymous access as I didn't understand your previous reply.

Thanks

If you're connecting from a Windows machine, you can connect anonymously to the ip address of the samba server and using username and password to the machine name of the samba server, so:

\\192.168.1.1\public (anonymously)
\\raspberrypi\home_folder (connect with username)

rasberrypi would be the hostname and 192.168.1.1 the ip address of it

I'm at the stage now where I still have to login with a user/pass to the share but I suppose I can live with that. I will install a media server so I can stream the contents out to other devices rather than having to rely on network shares.

I'm going to close this question now. It isn't resolved but through no fault of yours so will award you the points and thank you for your help.

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