[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#423971: More details about this bug....

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:

> So, I *confirm* that this bug still exists in 3.2.5. "-o guest" does
> *not* connect anonymously to the mounted share.

That's correct.  You have to use '-o guest,sec=none' to connect anonymously.

This is a behavior change relative to mount.smbfs, but I think it's only a
wishlist bug to have mount.cifs implement a simpler syntax for achieving
this, since it is possible to achieve.

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