190409 – error in Code Listing 4.1 (smb.conf) about guest account

Bug 190409 - error in Code Listing 4.1 (smb.conf) about guest account

Summary: error in Code Listing 4.1 (smb.conf) about guest account

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other documents (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-sa...
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Reported:	2007-08-27 14:01 UTC by Davide Cendron (RETIRED)
Modified:	2007-09-15 16:48 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Davide Cendron (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-27 14:01:19 UTC

Hi, quick-samba-howto.xml has an error in Code Listing 4.1, where a smb.conf sample is showed.

There's the line

guest account = samba

but in a clean installation, after emerging samba, there isn't any "samba" user available, and the server fails to start, showing in error log something like

passdb/pdb_interface.c:guest_user_info(295)
guest_user_info: Unable to locate guest account [samba]!
smbd/server.c:main(960)
ERROR: failed to setup guest info.

A correct configuration for this statement could be:

guest account = nobody

or simply avoiding this statement, because the default for "guest account" (if not specified) is just "nobody".

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-15 16:43:56 UTC

Reassigning to me as Josh is away for the moment...

Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-15 16:48:58 UTC

Confirmed and fixed in CVS.