PISED OFF about cifs (mounts w/guest logons do not work)

I have a computer at home that exports a couple of guest access, read
only shares (mostly movies etc).

My other computers were accessing this share with empty username and
password (guest only option for smbd).

Everything worked great, until I upgraded to this goddamn CIFS that
came with FC5 (on my laptop).

It does not allow empty username. Instead, it sends "root" as
username.

I tried both username=, as well as guest option. Both send "root".

If I set username=xyz, it sends it. When I try to set empty username,
it says "username specified with no parameter" and refuses to take it,
as if it is its goddamn business to be my mommy.

What should I do about it, I would hate to use any actual
username/password combos on these machines.

i

Ignoramus28822 wrote:
> I have a computer at home that exports a couple of guest access, read
> only shares (mostly movies etc).
>
> My other computers were accessing this share with empty username and
> password (guest only option for smbd).
>
> Everything worked great, until I upgraded to this goddamn CIFS that
> came with FC5 (on my laptop).
>
> It does not allow empty username. Instead, it sends "root" as
> username.
>
> I tried both username=, as well as guest option. Both send "root".
>
> If I set username=xyz, it sends it. When I try to set empty username,
> it says "username specified with no parameter" and refuses to take it,
> as if it is its goddamn business to be my mommy.
>
> What should I do about it, I would hate to use any actual
> username/password combos on these machines.
>
> i

I have no idea unfortunately..... and I'm new to linux, and I'm trying
to learn about it's networking, so I seek out and follow these threads
for tidbits of info - a couple of thoughts;
CIFS = Common Internet File System (or SAMBA(?))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIFS

To keep any interested parties informed; wasn't it you who had a recent
thread concerning Samba?
http://tinyurl.com/le57d
just curious, not accusatory -- and yet, if so, it would help others to
help you.

WAG;
I was just reading about some ZEROCONF stuff in another thread around
here;
(http://tinyurl.com/pmj2o) and found that it _may_ be
wanted/needed/necessary(?) for ease of *interoperability* between diff
proprietary systems and talking IP to each other across WANs(?). I
think Microsnot's version is NetBIOS(?).
More general info about Zeroconf;
http://www.zeroconf.org/
http://zeroconf.sourceforge.net/

Once I heard about this Zeroconf stuff, I decided to investigate on my
own boxen;
Synaptic tells me that I do /not/ have it installed...atleast not on my
Debian 3.1r1 Sarge (2.4.27-2-386 kernel)

I see *Zcip* is the name of the package using Synaptic (or Apt-cache)
which has this to say;
========================================
gets an IP addr by partially implementing IETF zeroconf protocols
zcip obtains an IP address without requiring manual assignment or a
DHCP server. It uses the ad-hoc link-local IPv4 auto-configuration
trick.
========================================

Dependencies;
$ apt-cache depends zcip
zcip
Depends: libc6
Depends: libnet0
Depends: libpcap0.8

Oh well, I'm probably just blabbering -- apologies if so -- I still
have a lot to read and learn :-)
I wonder if Zcip is an abbreviation for "Zero/Conf/Common Internet
Protocol"

On 9 Apr 2006 21:06:35 -0700, iforone <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Ignoramus28822 wrote:
>> I have a computer at home that exports a couple of guest access, read
>> only shares (mostly movies etc).
>>
>> My other computers were accessing this share with empty username and
>> password (guest only option for smbd).
>>
>> Everything worked great, until I upgraded to this goddamn CIFS that
>> came with FC5 (on my laptop).
>>
>> It does not allow empty username. Instead, it sends "root" as
>> username.
>>
>> I tried both username=, as well as guest option. Both send "root".
>>
>> If I set username=xyz, it sends it. When I try to set empty username,
>> it says "username specified with no parameter" and refuses to take it,
>> as if it is its goddamn business to be my mommy.
>>
>> What should I do about it, I would hate to use any actual
>> username/password combos on these machines.
>>
>> i
>
> I have no idea unfortunately..... and I'm new to linux, and I'm trying
> to learn about it's networking, so I seek out and follow these threads
> for tidbits of info - a couple of thoughts;
> CIFS = Common Internet File System (or SAMBA(?))
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIFS
>
> To keep any interested parties informed; wasn't it you who had a recent
> thread concerning Samba?
> http://tinyurl.com/le57d
> just curious, not accusatory -- and yet, if so, it would help others to
> help you.

Yes, it was me. That setup that we discussed in that thread, is
working great on the kid's computer that runs edubuntu; but my laptop
that I upgraded to FC5, is no longer able to connect to samb adrives
as guess (no username)

> WAG;
> I was just reading about some ZEROCONF stuff in another thread around
> here;
> (http://tinyurl.com/pmj2o) and found that it _may_ be
> wanted/needed/necessary(?) for ease of *interoperability* between diff
> proprietary systems and talking IP to each other across WANs(?). I
> think Microsnot's version is NetBIOS(?).
> More general info about Zeroconf;
> http://www.zeroconf.org/
> http://zeroconf.sourceforge.net/
>
> Once I heard about this Zeroconf stuff, I decided to investigate on my
> own boxen;
> Synaptic tells me that I do /not/ have it installed...atleast not on my
> Debian 3.1r1 Sarge (2.4.27-2-386 kernel)
>
> I see *Zcip* is the name of the package using Synaptic (or Apt-cache)
> which has this to say;
>========================================
> gets an IP addr by partially implementing IETF zeroconf protocols
> zcip obtains an IP address without requiring manual assignment or a
> DHCP server. It uses the ad-hoc link-local IPv4 auto-configuration
> trick.
>========================================
>
> Dependencies;
> $ apt-cache depends zcip
> zcip
> Depends: libc6
> Depends: libnet0
> Depends: libpcap0.8
>
> Oh well, I'm probably just blabbering -- apologies if so -- I still
> have a lot to read and learn :-)
> I wonder if Zcip is an abbreviation for "Zero/Conf/Common Internet
> Protocol"
>

Thanks, I do not think that zeroconf is an issue, I do not have it
installed.

i