title: samba shares seen in windows, but cannot connect
body: <p>I am trying to setup samba shares for guest access for my home network. All I want to do is provide guest access so each family member has a remotely accessible directory so they can copy over files they want to backup. I do not want to give family members user accounts on the linux box, just guest access for samba. This is an example of one of my shares in my smb.conf file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>security = share
  
  [Backups-Rhonda]
  path = /raid1/rhonda
  guest ok = yes
  guest account = nobody
  guest only = yes
  browseable = yes
  writable = yes
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The shared paths have file permissions 666. I used smbpasswd to give a password to the nobody account on my debian box. Using smbstatus -v I can see that the Service is indeed connected to the Windows client. On the Windows clients I can see the shares so samba appears to be working. </p>
  
  <p>However, the authentication fails on the Windows boxes. I always get a dialog that says <code>You do not have permission to access.....</code>   I have tried <code>map network drive...</code> but that fails with a <code>Location is not available W:\ is not accessible Access is denied</code> dialog. I tried the <code>Connect using different credentials</code> under Map Network Drive, but still the same error dialog.</p>
  
  <p>How do I get the Windows boxes to authenticate properly for simple guest access?</p>