Thank you for dedicating a little of your time to review cifs :-)
I will be alert to updates to test again trying to connect via cifs to
various scenarios: Win10, Zentyal Linux (domain) and a small machine
with MX Linux 21 installed only for tests with Plan9 and cifs with a
share as 'guest'.
El
i am the author of cifs.
i may have some slightly more recent fixes than 9 front has, i will check.
the manual page does explain some registry settings you may need to tweak to
get it to work - to do with windows getting more and more restrictive about the
authentication protocols it supports.
Thank you very much for the information.
You are absolutely right: the documentation offered in /sys/doc offers
a lot of useful information to understand how Plan9 works.
One of the first documents I read was the "Plan 9 From Bell Labs" and
just after almost the entire "book" DASH 1 from
fatotum is quite easy, since it's a client as a filesystem.
The "real" server you can set up (but it's optional) is the secstore
server which persistently holds your keys.
factotum just uses these keys (or the ones you entered manually or read
in through a custom mechanism, e.g. a file) to
