Access a passwordless windows share

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Hi,

i need help configuring access to a passwordless Windows share.

Dolphin keeps asking for a password, but the share does not have one!

How can i set dolphin to access the share without asking for passwords?

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Ordinarily,
You’d be prompted for a password only if one is required.

Did you set up your Network Share yourself?
On a MSWindows or Linux machine?
To set up a SMB/CIFS network share with a blank password, <both> network share <and> file permissions have to be set to Anonymous or World.

Try connecting from another machine or device to verify that the problem isn’t likely on the Client.

TSU

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The setup is on a Windows machine where a drive is shared with the network.
There is no domain associated, just a workgroup.
the network is composed of Windows and openSUSE machines.

Any of the Linux machines have the same problem.

I supose this

is just for when the share is made from a Linux machine, right?

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Applies to all machines.

A common setup mistake for example is to set the Windows Share password blank but forget that the underlying NTFS permissions also need to enable Anonymous access… By default, Anonymous is not allowed , User is allowed. And, of course set to Full Control unless you want to allow only ReadOnly.

Considering that your final Network Access permissions will be a combination of both Share and File permissions. my convention which is followed by many is to set the NTFS file level permissions always to allow Anonymous Full Control so that only the Share level permissions need to be configured. Of course, this assumes… And you may want to remove the executable permission to be safer although no ought to be able to execute something on the File Server.

  • The Network Share will be accessed only trusted machines and Users in your LAN and is not Internet facing
  • No one but Admins have local logon access to the machine serving the File Shares. Anyone who has local logon access would potentially have full run of the machine.
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Well, i’ve set both, but it does not seem to be working either.

I dind’t reboot, however (and won’t be able for a few time)…

is there anything else i can do?

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Been awhile but I don’t think you should have to reboot the Windows File Server to apply settings.
You <may> need to reboot the client to clear all caches in memory (I don’t remember that this kind of network connection should be cached on disk).

Try using a different machine or a different client (web browser or command line) on your existing machine. Almost any device can be a SMB/CIFS client, even a phone or tablet. Most web browsers should support being an SMB/CIFS client and many also support a User Mode command line (may require installing an app on a mobile device).

TSU

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I’ve tried different configs and still no luck. from allowing anonymous login to network and a few others, nothing worked.

Is this a SUSE config problem or a Windows config problem? (or maybe something to do with Plasma…)

can you bring in some light? :slight_smile:

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Hi
More likely security changes on the packages. Check the share via the smbclient command (I would guess maybe the smb version in use);


smbclient -d3 -L //<your_nas>

It will ask fo a password but just hit enter and should use anonymous, should login and give a share list, or an error…

You might need to edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf on the client, try adding the following to the [global] section;


ntlm auth = yes

or


client use spnego = no
client ntlmv2 auth = no
max protocol = NT1