Guest Samba access on Mac OS X

#darwin

#configuration

#linux

#mac os x

#samba

#smb

I've been having problems with accessing my Samba server from Mac OS X - authenticated access worked fine, but trying to browse the shares from my other Mac laptop wasn't working. I didn't realise this but I was missing an important part of the configuration. Before, I'd see the server in the Finder, click on it and get "Connection Failed", using smbutil from the command-line gave similar errors:

> smbutil view -g //HINOKI
smbutil: server rejected the authentication: Authentication error

Simply adding the following to the /etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]
 map to guest = bad user

and restarting the server caused everything to start working on Mac OS X:

> smbutil view -g //HINOKI
Share Type Comments
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media Disk Hinoki Media
dropbox Disk 
IPC$ Pipe IPC Service (hinoki Samba)

3 shares listed