Since there’s a million different pages covering Samba, I’ll just make some
short notes what I had to change in the default config to have machine keep a
network disk sharable to allow my other computer mount it as a network disk
using Windows 98, without specifying a password.

Change the line in /etc/smb.conf that says security = user to
instead become security = share.

Add a section in the ‘Share Definitions’ that looks something like:

[data]
comment = General Data Disk
path = /data
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

Make samba reload the config file and fly…

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