Allow for shares with public access (no authentication)

[pfaelzerchen]

Currently, I provide some traditional SMB shares from my old server solution that can be accessed from the local network without username and password. Use cases are:

• a public file exchange (rw)
• serve a music library (ro)

As far as I understand the documentation, one have to choose for some kind of user authentication. It would be nice to have an option, e.g. spec.mode=public in the SmbSecurityConfig to make that possible.

[pfaelzerchen]

I took the ConfigMap, Secrets, Service and Deployment that was created by the operator and did the adjustments, necessary for my use case. I came up with the following additions to the config map necessary to make any computer and device working as expected:

globals.globals.options: two lines must be added:

"server role": "standalone server",
"map to guest": "bad user"

Actually, only SONOS S2 needed them, Windows and Linux hosts did work without.

The shares just need

"guest ok": "yes"

I hope this helps. Tutorials argue that one should add "guest only" to the shares in this case for security reasons. For my special use case, it doesn't seem to really make a difference.

[phlogistonjohn]

Thank you for the feedback!