On 11/21/08 00:59, Bill Shannon wrote: > 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.
It's difficult when someone says, "I need this solution, do you support it?" and they don't provide enough context t derive the problem to be solved. As opposed to "This is my problem, here are my requirements, how would you solve it?" I suspect that it is possible for you to achieve what you want without anonymous access but it depends on your requirements. If the only thing that concerns you is ease-of-use; avoiding people on your network having to enter usernames and passwords to access shares and/or having to manually map shares on logon then you can do that with the CIFS service, provided you don't mind the one-time setup of creating a few accounts on Solaris and checking "Reconnect at logon" on the Windows systems systems. If it's anonymous or nothing, then your options are to raise the RFE (I'll respond to your other email) or use another solution. >> 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. I've had a couple of emails on this. I believe the description I gave of the registry settings and behavior is accurate but perhaps the GUI manipulates things when you share folders so that it works. We'll have to look into that. >>> 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? Yes, the CIFS client, which is based on smbfs, still supports anonymous logon. Alan _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
