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I'm eager to use a Raspberry Pi as a low-load NAS, and I was reading the guide at: http://www.howtogeek.com/139433/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-low-power-network-storage-device/

In the tutorial they configure the samba.conf by adding:

security = user

However I want my network share to be easily accessible, so that when (in Windows 7) you click on Network and the PC as appears in this image (not mine):

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Say you click on the computer 'PAPA', it directly opens up the files instead of asking for a username and password.

My guess is to add a # before security = user, to comment it out.

Am I on the right track?

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There was a security = share to make the whole share read only or read / write to everyone in older versions of Samba but it doesn't exist anymore.

You want to look at guest only and guest user configuration parameters to remap unknown users (no password typed) to a configured guest account.

Machines that are in a domain will always pop up the username / password screen but you can type whatever and you'll connect using the guest account.

Here is a minimal smb.conf that would do what you want :

[global]

   netbios name = server
   workgroup = HOME

   security = user
   map to guest = bad user
   guest ok = yes
   guest only = yes
   guest account = sacha
   force user = sacha
   force group = sacha

[public]

   browseable = yes
   read only = no
   path = /srv/samba/public
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There isn't any need to change the security = user option. 

[PAPA]
   comment = Whatever
   path = /your/path
   read only = no
   public = yes
   create mask = 0666
   force create mode = 0666
   directory mask = 2777
   force directory mode = 2777

And then you simple need to set permissions on /your/path so that other has the needed permissions, e.g. 2777

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