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Enabling or disabling the Windows guest user account

The effect of enabling the Windows guest user account depends on how your storage system authenticates users.

About this task

Here are the possibilities:

Step

  1. Perform one of the following actions.
    If you want to... Then...
    Disable the Windows guest user account Enter the following command: options cifs.guest_account ""
    Enable the Windows guest user account

    Create a user account in the NIS password database or the /etc/passwd file to be used by the guest account.

    Then enter the following command to specify the guest user account name used in the UNIX password database: options cifs.guest_account unix_name

    unix_name is the name of the user account in the UNIX password database.