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Can I disable all passwords in Samba so I can just connect without logging in?

Is there a way to send files from the Linux box to the Windows box using Samba?

Aug 14th, 2000 16:42
Jason Ross, Nathan Wallace, Mark Bratcher

Yes to all of the above.

When you set up your Linux shares, set 'guest ok' to 'yes'. That should
give access without the password.

Alternatively, if you have a shared folder on Win95, you should be able
to see it from Linux if you type in:

smbclient -L //MY_WIN95_PC

(MY_WIN95_PC is the computer name for your Win95 box.)
If that's the case, then use mount to mount the shared folder as an
smbfs type file system to a mount directory on your Linux machine.
(Enter 'smbmount' for a little help string on the mount command format,
and set the option for guest connection so that you can ignore the
password.)


This allows linux to mount the windows box. Accessing Linux from 
windows is as simple as opening network neighborhood and clicking on 
the server name in there. You can even map a drive to the shares.