On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:41:20 -0500 Jason Crain <ja...@inspiresomeone.us>
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 05:15:56PM -0400, Markus Hamilton wrote:
> > The bug is still there using version 1.28.2 now ... in fact there
are forum
> > discussions and bug reports all over the internet about this
problem for
> > years now. Could we at least get a statement from the maintainers
whether
> > this will ever get fixed or is there some policy we could implement
to allow
> > this. SOME information would really help to figure out where this
is going.
>
> From the gvfs-mount manpage:
>
> -a, --anonymous
> Use an anonymous user when authenticating
>
> This option was added in gvfs version 1.23.90 so gvfs-mount (or gio
> mount) should work on stretch or later. On earlier versions you can try
> entering a fake username and password depending on how you have samba
> set up.
>
> About pcmanfm and caja - I don't see any problem with anonymous smb
> shares using nautilus so this is likely something that pcmanfm and caja
> need to add support for.
>
>
I think we misunderstand each other. I am not talking about anonymous
access. I am talking about accessing a samba server which does not have
anonymous (guest) access enabled. So users do have to provide a username
to be able to login. Some of these usernames (aka smb accounts) just
have no (or in words an empty) password. Using anonymous access will not
work (disabled on the server). A fake username will not work either
(unknown to the server). It has to be a valid username and an empty
password. Using mount via command line works fine. Here's an example -
"markus" is a valid smb account at the server. The password is empty.
sudo mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /mnt -o
username=markus,password=""
But when I try the same operation using gvfs-mount like this:
gvfs-mount smb://servername/sharename
Then the first thing gvfs-mount does is spitting out a message saying
"Password required for share sharename on servername". It then asks for
username, then domain and finally password. Just hitting "enter" doesn't
cut it. gvfs-mount asks again for the password.
So far I have not managed to mount a smb share using gvfs-mount if the
valid smb account simply is passwordless. If you can tell me how to do
that then I'm ready to shift the blame to to pcmanfm and caja. "mount -t
cifs..." is living proof that it's not a samba (or Windows, for that
matter) problem.
So again: how do I gvfs-mount a smb share with a non-anonymous, valid
smb username but without entering (because there is none) a password?
Thank you for reading here. There are so many users out there with the
same problem. It used to work. It stopped working at some point during
the life of jessie.
