[cifs-discuss] [storage-discuss] ? Solaris CIFS equivalent to SAMBA guest ok = yes

[Tim Thomas]

Thanks Jeff

I have been told that we do not support access to shares by 
unauthenticated users.

Rgds

Tim

Jeff Cheeney said the following :
> Tim Thomas wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have been sent this question..
>>  
>>> Is there any way to set a share in workgroup mode without forcing 
>>> users to authenticate?  I'm using Solaris/CIFS as a home NAS and I'd 
>>> like to share media to a number of machines without having to go to 
>>> each machine and type in usernames and passwords.  I have something 
>>> like the guest ok option from Samba in mind.
>>>     
>> Can we do something equivalent with OpenSolaris CIFS ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>   
> I think there was a message a while back that indicated this was not 
> possible. I'm CC'ing the newly created cifs-discuss discussion list 
> for their reply.
>
>       --jc
>
> ---
> Jeff Cheeney
>  OpenSolaris Storage Community Lead
>  http://opensolaris.org/os/community/storage
> http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn

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