Guest user about samba

[MarvAmBass]

good to know! have fun with the container :)

[MarvAmBass]

I guess the user needs access permissions on the filesystem

I have some similar setup where I made the guest share read only. If you're logged in you have write permissions.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/88108/samba-share-read-only-for-guests-read-write-for-authenticated-users
This describes it pretty well 😊

[noaho]

yeah.. The thing is all users have access to the share (read + execute)

For example I can run
docker exec -it --user nobody samba sh

cd /shares/sharename
ls

and see all the files..

For your working setup, did you have to assign the guest user to a particular user, or did the defaults work?

[MarvAmBass]

My guest gets mapped to nobody.

I set my permissions on filesystem level accordingly
So there are files and documents which wouldn't be accessible by nobody e.g guest.

If I want to share files or whole shares I overwrite permissions and force groups on the samba config level.

You can also use nobody and remove others from writing in the share 🤔
With chmod 775 for example

[noaho]

Thanks for your help!

I found the problem, apparently I can't use valid user in combination with guest ok, unless I add the guest users (eg nobody) to valid user.

EG, this works:
- SAMBA_VOLUME_CONFIG_sharename=[sharename]; path=/shares/sharename; valid users = user1, user2, nobody; read only = yes; write list = user1; guest ok = yes; browseable = yes