[Samba] Mounting smbfs as guest at boot time

[Urban Widmark]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Sue Spence wrote:

> So I would merely (haha) like to know why the
> operation of mounting a win2k smbfs partition as guest
> always fails anytime during boot and always works
> after a user logs in and manually performs the
> operation. 

The difference is the environment of the processes. smbmount picks a
username from $USER if none is given. I don't know if that is the trigger,
but I think so.

A difference between smbclient and smbmount was corrected for 2.2.2.
(I think, it is fixed in 2.2.2 anyway).

smbclient attempts to connect with username/password ""/"" if the given
username + password fails. smbmount didn't and that would fail for guest
in startup scripts.


I haven't seen any mention of samba versions in use, but if it isn't 2.2.2
or 2.2.3a then upgrade.

/Urban