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When accessing SMB shared that are password-protected, smbclient works just fine.

But when I'm trying to access shared that have no password protection (public shares), smbclient prints:

tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

How can I access those shares?

I'm trying to access Windows 7 from my Ubuntu 12.10

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I believe that is not the complete error message... – schaiba Feb 17 at 20:35
@schaiba - It also says Anonymous login successful if it helps – speller Feb 17 at 20:39
Yes, it helps. Remove live essentials from the Windows 7 server and try again, it's an old bug. – schaiba Feb 17 at 20:46
@schaiba - I don't have live essentials – speller Feb 17 at 20:56
which version of samba you use? $smbd --version – Yurij73 Mar 4 at 6:12
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Could you check which security option is given in your smb.conf. By default security = user option will be enabled under Standalone Server option .User level of security asks for username/passwd in windows while if you keep the security = share it wont ask for credentials or can access share without password. This option can also be appended to your local share definitions.

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It was indeed security = user but it was also commented-out. Tries un-commenting it, and changed it to security = share, but I got the same results – speller Feb 19 at 19:38
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if your mount point is /home/myuser/mountpoint and shared folder is named sharefolder. You should try mount -t cifs //<your shareserver name or ip>/sharefolder -o username=guest,password="" /home/myuser/mountpoint

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Tried it, but I'm getting mount error(5): Input/output error. Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) And if I sniff with Wireshark I see I get STATUS_ACCOUNT_RESTRICTION from the server – speller Feb 19 at 19:33
does windows share permit folder read/write for guests? – Yurij73 Feb 20 at 6:19
check for sure that the full sharepath is accessible. your sharefolder and all higher level folder must be +r+x at least. – Yurij73 Feb 20 at 15:41
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From here:

by default network access is denied to accounts which don't have a
password... you can change this option in the group policy

Well, appears it's not possible. Microsoft probably thought this is clever..

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Sorry for that comment, if something goes wrong. I use a windows 2003 and XPs shares w/o any pass. Just with guest acc enabled. – Yurij73 Feb 24 at 19:59

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