samba guest access from a different network

[Luca Ferrari]

On Monday 2 July 2007 Luca Ferrari's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:

> and I can access the share from the local network (192.168.2.) but not from
> another network (192.168.1.) or better from the latter I cannot access from
> a win/mac pc, while from a linux box I can access. Each time I try to
> access from a windows pc on the 192.168.1 network I'm prompter for a
> username and password, and of course "guest" does not work. From a linux
> box on the same network I can access without any username and password.
> I've checked the server and there is not a firewall rule, so what can be
> the problem?

I found: it was the missing security= parameter that by default is set to 
user.

Thanks,
Luca