Samba Mystery Share
 

I made a new fileserver, it is not yet live .. I simply copied our smb.conf file from our old box with a couple of minor adjustments and all works well, _however_, if I look at that box with a windows file explorer, among the shares that should be there, is one called "nobody". I have no clue why it's there, and it can't be entered. Logs don't tell me anything

Debian 12 / Samba 4.17.12

Any thoughts?

This thread from the Ubuntu forums might be helpful.

There are only a couple of threads with a similar problem that pop up in a search but nothing really points to a cause. It might be a samba bug but I am guessing its rarity would make it hard to debug. I am guessing that you do not have a home directory, user share or anything else in your smb.conf that might create a share called nobody. I have several systems running debian 12 with samba and never have seen a rouge share yet but must are pretty much stock configuration.

The cause of this seems to be that the smb.conf file shipped with Debian enables the [homes] automatic shares.

If you want to keep that feature, then the solution would be to add the following "share" to smb.conf:
Followed by:
Credit for this solution: https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154522

I stand corrected I can see the nobody share via linux file browser but not Windows. I guess I never tried which is strange... But yes adding a fake share is the workaround.

It looks like you have the 'homes' share in use and have connected anonymously, the guest user is 'nobody', so you are being shown the home directory share for 'nobody'.

Thanks all, the
```
[nobody]
browseable = no
```
removed the "nobody" share from view