[cifs-discuss] Solaris CIFS equivalent toSAMBA guest ok = yes

[Tim Thomas]

I understand why you did it this way...but I do ISV 
testing/certification work and this will make Solaris CIFS harder to use 
for at least one of my ISV's when compared with SAMBA based solutions I 
have tested and our 5320 NAS (and other NAS appliances probably) which 
allow unauthenticated access.

It is not a show stopper by any means...but it makes things more 
complicated.

It would be nice to give users the choice of unauthenticated access.

Afshin Salek said the following :
> In the old share-mode, users could see the list of shares
> on a server and each share could have an optional read-write
> or read-only password. In user-mode, users have to be
> authenticated before they can see the list of shares.
>
> Solaris CIFS, intentionally does not provide the old share-mode
> because of its inherent weak security. It only provides the
> user-mode which means everyone should be authenticated before
> they can see the shares exported by the server.
>
> Afshin
>
> David Collier-Brown wrote:
>   
>> cifs-discuss-request at opensolaris.org wrote:
>>     
>>> From: Tim Thomas <Tim.Thomas at Sun.COM>
>>> Thanks Jeff
>>>
>>> I have been told that we do not support access to shares by 
>>> unauthenticated users.
>>>
>>> Rgds
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>       
>>   Guest OK in Samba conveniently reproduces the very old 
>> "public share" behavior of SMB 0.1 on a token-ring (;-))
>>
>>   Perhaps a better question is how do we create a share
>> in CIFS which is easily found by everyone and has rwx +t
>> permissions for them?
>>
>>
>> --dave
>>     
>
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