On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:40:49PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:

> I pushed this patch to Steve ~last may. You might want to check that
> the kernel you're working with has it. Without it, sec=none doesn't
> really do what you expect...

[snip]

> We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null
> username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the
> code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order
> to trigger an anonymous mount. The mount.cifs code doesn't seem to ever
> pass a null username to the kernel, however.

My mistake -- I was misusing that sec=none option; I was under the
impression that it worked as in mount.smbfs (to force cleartext
authentication).


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