> Hi, I'm using OpenSolaris with ZFS for my > mediaserver, and I am wondering if it is possible to > have some sort of a guest account, so that I don't > have to type a username/password to read the content > on the server. > > I want to use Vista Home Basic as the OS on my HTPC, > but that OS does not have the ability to save network > passwords, so either I need to have the same username > and password on my HTPC as I have on my server, or I > need to manually log in to the server each time I > start the HTPC. > > And I don't want to have to do either of those two > options. > > So I am wondering if there is a way to let people > read from the server without entering a password.
Are you talking about SMB/CIFS shares from a (Open)Solaris server to a Windows client? If so, I think you can do it if you're using samba; just google for samba guest and look around a bit; samba should be similar enough that even Linux related info may be of some help. OTOH, if you're using the newer native CIFS server, I think a mapping rule could do that, but I haven't seen an example of specifically doing that (but see the idmap(1m) man page, just in case). If I were you, I'd limit that to just certain shares rather than all of them, and to read-only access by guest. I think that's possible with samba, but for the native CIFS service, I don't know enough to guess. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
