Ian Collins wrote:
> On Tue 02/12/08 07:38 , Bill Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
>> Ian Collins wrote:
>>> Bill Shannon wrote:
> 
>>>  From a user's point of view, what's the difference between share-level
>>> access that doesn't require a password and anonymous access?
>>>   
>>> The latter does not require a login?
>> Well, then that must be what I'm using, because I'm never required to
>> login.
> 
> I think that was the point I made to you earlier; once windows has connected 
> to a share as a user without a password, it will always reconnect without 
> asking.
> 
> So all that's required is the creation of a "guest" user with no password on 
> the server.

Is this effectively what Samba is doing when you tell it to allow guest access?

How do I create a guest user with no password who has no rights (e.g., to
login, ftp, etc.) other than access using cifs?

I guess there should be a zfs/cifs management GUI that hides all these
implementation details...  :-)

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