Samba guest accounts & other woes

[trbabb]

Hi,

I have a headless Ubuntu server, and I have three user directories in /home/: "tbabb", "ababb", and "media". Currently, 'media' is a folder/user with weaker permissions that any valid user should be able to use & dump files into.

Now, I want anybody on the *local* network to be able to open up the server through SMB and access /home/media without having to supply a username or password. However, I want /home/ababb and /home/tbabb (and any other user directory that I may add) to be accessible through SMB only with the valid unix passwords of their respective accounts.

What's the best way to go about this?

[trbabb]

Okay, so I've got the server running, and /home/media is mapped to the guest account. However, no matter what I do, it's read-only. I've found the "guest account = nobody" option in smb.conf, and have tried changing it to "= media", but this doesn't seem to work. An excerpt of my smb.conf:


[Guest Share]

writeable = yes
path = /home/media
write list = @everyone
guest ok = yes
only guest = yes
public = yes
readonly = no
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777


I should mention that media's umask is (I believe) 775, and it'd be great if I could get access to all the files that are already in /home/media by using the media user (instead of chmodding everything that's already there).

Any help would be appreciated.