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I have a linux system running samba which has an ethernet connection to a Windows 7 PC. After reading and trying a lot I got the following configuration:

[myShare] path = /usr/share/mySystemUser/ public = yes guest ok = yes writeable = yes browseable = yes ntlm auth = no

I simply want that myShare can be accessed either

  1. without any password (public share) or
  2. with the credentials of mySystemUser. mySystemUser is a local user on the linux machine.

But so far Windows requests a password, therefore myShare can only be accessed if I run

useradd myWindowsUserName smbpasswd -a myWindowsUsername

While entering the same Password as on the Windows machine, so that the same username exists both on the linux and Windows7 machine with the same password.

How can 1. and 2. be solved?

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I am using this configuration

[public] comment = Public Folder path = /home/public public = yes writable = yes create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 force user = nobody force group = nogroup

and in case mySystemUser = myWindowsUserName

[mySystemUser] path = /usr/share/mySystemUser/ browseable = no writeable = yes create mode = 0770 directory mode = 0770 read only = no valid users = mySystemUser force user = mySystemUser

If you wanna to see your shared folder in windows explorer, set browseable to yes.

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