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

[Afshin Salek]

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

I guess this is something that we need to get PSARC agreement for it
and my experience tells me that there will be really strong objections.

Afshin

> 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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