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Avoid Being Connected to the Samba Server as the Wrong User

You see per smbstatus that you are connected as user nobody, but you want to be root or printer admin. This is probably due to map to guest = bad user, which silently connected you under the guest account when you gave (maybe by accident) an incorrect username. Remove map to guest if you want to prevent this.

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