The effect of enabling the Windows guest user account depends on how your storage system authenticates users.
Here are the possibilities:
These users use the UNIX UID that you create specifically for the Guest account. A user logged in as Guest does not have a home directory.
If you want to... | Then... |
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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. |