Publicly Accessible Samba Share

[20_MuleTeam_Borax]

I set up a samba share read/writable to guests. I can connect w/o a username/password from the local machine, but i get

session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
SMB connection failed

when i try to connect from a different machine. iptables -L is showing no rules, and the default is accept, so I dont think it's a firewall problem. Here's the smb.conf section for the share.

[public]
path = /home/public
public = yes
only guest = yes
writable = yes
printable = no

 

[manly]

If you don't already have a WINS server, make Samba the WINS server, and manually configure each Windows client to use the Samba host for WINS. If you can get DHCP to hand out that info, even better.

If that doesn't fix the problem, you can probably get it to work by explicitly specifying the username. I.e.

NET USE M: \\SAMBABOX\SOMESHARE /USER:guest