[KLUG Members] samba and guest account

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Please what is the purpose of guest account in samba .

To provide a limited security context.

> Is it same as windows 2000's Guest account? 

No, I donit think so.  Guest is non-authenticated,  similair to the security
contect Windows machines use when communicating with each other via the IPC$
share (which they do allo).

> When I used smbclient -L \\share then I am asked for
> password. I do not know which user is being used. 

The user name of you current session unless you specify otherwise.

> Is guest ok=yes and public=ok is same?

I believe so.