[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#495653: Bug#495653: samba: libcfree()crash in smbd

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:15:19AM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> Sorry for the errors in my post, I stand up too early: :-)

> > In my case, security is not the problem ("home server"), so
> > "security=share" is the problem. I need this as a workaround, because with
> > "security=user", you always need a user/password when connecting to the
> > server, even when only displaying the shares (how can this be disabled)? I
> > want to have some shares, accessible readable for everyone without
> > authentication (for MP3-Players etc), but home directories read/writeable
> > with user authentication. Beyond this bug, do you have a hint for this?
> > "user=share" was the only solution I got from Google for my problem :-)

> I think you understand what I want to have with "security=share": Some
> shares open without any authentication, other with authentication.

Perhaps "security = user", + "guest ok = yes", + "map to guest = bad user"
meets your needs?

I think that's at least consistent with what recent versions of Windows do.

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