Password protected

How are you accessing the shared directory? Browsing with explorer or writting the location? Are you using links?

Take a look to samba logs and check if there is any authentication error.

Here is the same problem...
i have updated many times to the newest version but all works
i restarted the system and now i can only access with users not with guest

here my config:

#======================= Global Settings =======================
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string =  
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
dns proxy = no
log level = 0
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog only = yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
unix password sync = no
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
pam password change = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
guest account = nobody
load printers = no
disable spoolss = yes
printing = bsd
printcap name = /dev/null
unix extensions = yes
wide links = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
map to guest = Bad User
use sendfile = no
null passwords = yes
local master = no
time server = no
wins support = no


#======================= Share Definitions =======================
[TVAufnahmenOli]
path = /media/4e1f8ed2-639d-4b33-9125-9db7bad97b04/TVAufnahmenOli
guest ok = yes
read only = no
browseable = yes
inherit acls = no
inherit permissions = no
ea support = no
store dos attributes = no
printable = no
create mask = 0755
force create mode = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force directory mode = 0755
hide dot files = yes
valid users = oli,bernd,vuplus
invalid users = 
read list = bernd
write list = oli,vuplus

Good hint!
So now we need a fix please

Access to SMB without password works as long as I've created no user.

Once I create user xyz, when accessing a user password prompt is

Sorry my english is not the best

I am having the same problem (0.4.6). Has this been verified? Is this a (generic) Samba problem, or an OMV problem?

What I'd need is a few folders publicly available (pictures, videos, music) and a couple of shares accessible to only specific users (password protected). But it looks to me that accessing any share without password requires no user set up. Can anyone confirm who knows this stuff?

People, this is exactly the same problem as described in: http://forums.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=137

You can do a quick fix by appending "nobody" user to "valid users = ..." and "write list = ..."

So in case Wired Life this should be like:

...
valid users = oli,bernd,vuplus,nobody
...
write list = oli,vuplus,nobody

then either run "service samba restart" or just reboot the system and guest users will now be able to read and write to a given share. This fix, however, will be overwritten if you change any Samba settings via UI.

The programmatic fix to this bug is also described in the above mentioned thread. I just hope Volker can notice my posts and make a fix. There's not much to the logic change and should be a quick implementation.

Actually, here is another more permanent, but still an ugly fix:
For shares that you want to remain public, go to SMB/CIFS, then Edit the required share and add these two lines in the Extra Options field (for each share):

valid users =
write list =

Zitat von "TomMuh"

Access to SMB without password works as long as I've created no user.

Once I create user xyz, when accessing a user password prompt is

Sorry my english is not the best

This is exactly what I found out after so many hours trying!

Very frustrated!!! Can't linux/Debrian implement a better SAMBA code to do such simple requirement? Too many options! Too many override rules!

Volker explained this well in here http://bugtracker.openmediavault.org/view.php?id=681