rant: cifs utterly screwed in fedora 18

[Steven Stern]

On 01/25/2013 06:21 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> smbd[20596]: WARNING: Ignoring invalid value 'SHARE' for parameter 'security'
> 
> This is unacceptably stupid. The guys with the tinfoil hats
> who think that connecting a computer to AC power is insecure
> have obviously taken over.
> 
> It is now utterly impossible to provide a windows share
> from a linux box that can be connected without the
> windows side asking for credentials.
> 
> Nevermind that the entire LAN is isolated behind a
> firewall. Nevermind that all users inside that firewall
> are trusted and will be pissed off that they constantly
> have to provide credentials for no reason. Nevermind
> that there is nothing in the shared directory but
> things like copies of holiday snapshots. Oh no!
> The security geeks need to make sure I'm protected
> from myself. Just because it is my computer, my LAN,
> and my data is no reason I get to decide how I want
> to use it. I'm too ignorant for that.
> 
> Now, please use this rant as motivation to prove I'm
> wrong by posting a tested, working, smb.conf file that
> provides a read/write windows file share which requires
> no credentials prompt on the windows box. (Merely
> mentioning things you've heard ought to work isn't
> useful - I've tried them all - I need a working tested
> example).
> 
> Sheesh!
> 
This works for XP:

$ more smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = LITTERBOX
server string = samba
security = share
passdb backend = tdbsam
load printers = no
guest account = fshare

os level = 99
wins support = yes
name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes

[pub]
comment = data directory
path = /var/pub
writeable = yes
public = yes
guest ok = yes
create mode = 0664
directory mask = 0775


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-- Steve