Alan M Wright wrote: >> Sorry, what I meant was getting every other computer and every other >> person using every other computer in my house to understand and use >> authentication is just too hard. > > So you're passing the buck :-)
No, I think I've avoiding passing the buck to everyone else in my house. I'm trying to solve the problem for them. Which I've done with Samba, but can't do with the new CIFS support. > Since you mentioned compatibility with Windows... Both the guest > account and null sessions are disabled by default on Windows, so > you'd need to do some work to get this operational with a Windows > server. I haven't had any trouble sharing files from Windows servers for anonymous access. >> Given that I have so many >> other ways to allow unauthenticated access, including NFS, I don't >> see any reason to prevent me from having that choice with kernel >> mode CIFS support. >> And while we're on the subject, is the client mode CIFS support >> going to work with guest access to my Windows machine? Or do I >> need to uninstall OpenSolaris and replace it with Linux to get that? > > If the CIFS client doesn't do what you need, you can use smbclient > on Solaris, which is what you'd get on Linux. If you are already > using Samba on Solaris, what benefit would you get by moving to Linux? On Linux I don't need to use smbclient. I can use smbfs and access it as a filesystem. But you didn't answer the question... Is OpenSolaris cifs client access going to work to access remote Windows shares anonymously? _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
