[linux-cifs-client] Guess login option BROKEN in Samba 3.0.22? (Fedore Core 5)

[eflorac at intellique.com]

On Tue, April 11, 2006 10:25, Igor Chudov wrote:
> I am very frustrated.
>
> I have a few "guest only" samba shares, exported from linux
> boxes. For example, I have a read only share with guest only access.
>
> I used to mount them just fine with a fstab entry like this:
>
> //manifold/torrents /torrents   smbfs ro,user,auto,username=,password=,
> 0 0

As a workaround, you could add

map to guest = Guest

in your samba server configuration Global section. This way, invalid users
will be accepted as "guests".