[KLUG Members] getting samba share completely anonymous

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I have a usb drive with a bunch of mp3s I share at work and I am trying 
> to get up samba to share them to everyone without requiring any sort of 
> login.
> I have set up the samba server as a share auth type and I can mount the 
> drive just fine as root and users on the system.
> I am running into the problem that I can see the share, but get access 
> denied when attempting to connect to it via a Windows XP machine. I am 
> wondering if the fact that all of the files are owned by root have 
> something to do with it.
> My smb.conf share:
> [music]
>    path=/mnt/music
>    browseable=yes
>    public=yes
>    read only=yes
>    guest ok = yes
> fstab entry (it's an ntfs drive):
> /dev/sda1       /mnt/music      auto    ro,users,noauto    0       0
> Can anyone point me to a howto or have any ideas of what I need to 
> check? 

You have the guest user set to a valid account, and your mapping 'bad user' to
guest?