I’m on 25.10.2.1 - Goldeye.
I have an SMB share that I want to setup as a public share. I’ve given full control to everyone, but whenever I try to connect to it, I get prompted for a password. What changes do I need to make to have this a public share?
Thanks
As far as i know, there’s no longer an option for guest access, it was removed with 25.10…
I think you can create a guest user in TrueNAS that then can have access to a share. Not 100% sure on this. But I ran into the same issue a while a go and read somewhere that it is possible that way. Haven’t tried it so far!
Wut? Really? Why?
Public share is a totally normal use case and I use that for all my read-only files that basically are write-once, read a lot like videos and ISO files.
Yet another reason why I’m perfectly content with CORE.
longer forum discussion on the topic with a work around posted from honeybadger
This is very disappointing. I have a public share so I can share between several devices on my network. I drop something there and I can grab it from anywhere within my network. There are several “security” items in TrueNAS that I just don’t understand; like needing a password for a VM console. I don’t need a password for a VMware VM console. Not sure why required in TrueNAS?
In the post i linked there’s a workaround. You have to manually set the share type to legacy. That way you can enable guest access, but it’s no longer officially supported.
Edit:
I did try setting it to legacy and I enabled guest access, but I still wasn’t able to access it without a password.
iXSystems are following Microsoft’s recommendations.
Microsoft are progressively working to limit or disable guest access.
Even if something is totally fine in your personal home environment (because you want to access data from many things without authentication), guest shares are ultimately a risky setup for many (arguably most) people.
I mean, if that’s what their stance is, then they should also disable versions of NFS prior to v4. I’m still not convinced.
Microsoft has limited power over NFS.
I’m very confused by your comment. You said that MS is the cause for not being able to open a share to the public. I just created a public share on my Win11 machine and I’m able to access it without password. If MS is blocking this, then I would expect it to be in effect on Windows as well.
I’m not talking about Microsoft, I’m talking about ixSystems as they decided to disable the legacy share.
I am not saying they aren’t allowing you to do do it, but Microsoft is taking steps disabling Guest shares by default. If you run a current W11 client today, you will find that you cannot connect to a guest share without changing some settings in W11 (here’s one article describing why and how to reenable it).
iX’s actions mirror that, i.e, You can still do guest shares but not without jumping through a few hoops.
iXsystems have not exactly disabled legacy shares, they don’t easily allow you to make new ones using the GUI though. You can choose to follow the instructions linked to from this thread if you need to make new ones, at your own risk.
