Afshin Salek wrote: > 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.
I don't understand. When I use guest access to a share there's no authentication occurring, and the access is done as user "nobody". >> 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 :) Double sigh... Haven't we gotten over this nonsense yet? Did you actually *ask* for permission to implement guest access? Or are you just assuming it would be refused? And note that this has nothing to do with Samba. *Windows* supports this, and isn't the point of adding CIFS support to Solaris to be more compatible with Windows? >>> 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 :) Yup, the man page says you can. The only example it gives is something like: zfs set sharesmb=name=MyShare tank _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
