URL for guest access to a Linux Samba server share from Finder

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!

In order to mount as "guest", you need to use another command: mount_smbfs

mount_smbfs -N //guest@server/share /some/existing/path

The "-N" is "don't ask for password" (type man mount_smbfs for more info).

As for the second part of how to create it on the fly (the path), I believe that it's not possible. The mount command doesn't create it on the fly and even the man pages mention the "correct" way is to mkdir first then mount.

See the man page for mount_smbfs.