[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#458071: Wrong file timestamps on smbfs mounted share when timezone +13

[Alex Jenner]

> Ok.  I had to poke at this a bit, but finally was able to connect to a
> guest
> share with mount.cifs.  The key is to use -o sec=none instead of -o guest.
> According to both the old smbmount manpage and the mount.cifs manpage, the
> "guest" option only means "don't prompt for a password", which is
> apparently
> not sufficient to cause mount.cifs to attempt an anonymous connection.
>
> I suppose we could at least add code to the smbmount wrapper script to
> translate "-o guest" to "-o guest,sec=none".

That might be one option, or at least some sort of documentation to help
the user make the transition to cifs, like ..doc/samba/diagnosis.html -
but that is for the samba package... and we need something for smbfs.

The man page does mention the "sec=none" option, but it's not obvious that
simply using "-o guest" is not enough.

I was going to make a new bug report as this one has gone off-topic, but
right now if testing became the new stable, there might be a certain
percentage of users no longer be able to mount their smbfs shares.