Bill Shannon wrote: > Afshin Salek wrote: >> Guest authentication is not supported by CIFS server. >> We haven't had any plans to support it so the data is still new :) > > Sigh. > > I guess that means I'm back to Samba for my home network. > Getting authenticated access to work is just too painful. >
Samba might have this as a share property but when a CIFS server runs in user mode, the user is authenticated first regardless which shares (s)he wants to access. Access to shares and directories is then restricted using ACLs. So whether guest authentication is allowed or not is a system wide property not a share property. > Is guest access really hard to implement, or is it just not considered > important? > It's not a matter of implementation, it is a matter of security. If you're going to say, well Samba does it so why don't you? My answer is that Samba doesn't need to get PSARC approval :) >> Even if it was supported, I'm wondering why were you trying to enable it >> using a file system command!? > > Isn't that one of the cool features of zfs, that I can tell it to manage > SMB or NFS shares for me? I use zfs set to set the SMB share name, and > the man page clearly says I can use it to pass other options to the > sharemgr command (although it doesn't really explain it). > I didn't know you can pass other share options using zfs sharesmb, can you really do that? Personally, I prefer to use sharemgr :) Afshin > Why *shouldn't* I use a filesystem command to manage SMB shares? > _______________________________________________ > cifs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
