MacOS – guest access to samba shares on 10.8

I finally found the answer on the DD-WRT forums and it's annoyingly simple but I would never have guessed it in a million years.

The username has to be entered in UPPER CASE. So while smb://share@192.168.1.1/public didn't work, smb://SHARE@192.168.1.1/public did!

Just wish I hadn't spent a day trying to get find that out!

Samba no more, for Lion Server mount.cifs needs extra options, "nounix,sec=ntlmssp"

  [root@50centos ~]# 
  [root@50centos ~]# yum install samba-client samba-common cifs-utils
 ...
  [root@50centos ~]# mkdir /mnt/lion_smb
  [root@50centos ~]# mount -t cifs -o MikeCochran,trustno1,nounix,sec=ntlmssp //198.252.206.140/smb_share /mnt/lion_smb/

          =^..^=       `·.¸¸ ><((((º>.·´¯`·><((((º>   

MikeCochran@stack:~$ 
MikeCochran@stack:~$ sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
  ...
MikeCochran@stack:~$ mkdir /mnt/lion_smb
MikeCochran@stack:~$ mount.cifs //198.252.206.140/smb_share /mnt/lion_smb/ -o user=MikeCochran,password=trustno1,nounix,sec=ntlmssp
MikeCochran@stack:~$ 
MikeCochran@stack:~$ mkdir /mnt/lion_smb_dup
MikeCochran@stack:~$ mount -t cifs //198.252.206.140/smb_share /mnt/lion_smb-dup -o username=MikeCochran,password=trustno1,nounix,sec=ntlmssp

apologies for the delay!!