CIFS shares shared as read only

[HRS]

The CIFS shares are exported as read-only.
It seems that many users are encountering similar problems.
Various tips in the forums did not fix the problem.

The documentation (http://web.freenas.org/images/resources/freenas9.2.1/freenas9.2.1_guide.pdf , sec 7.3.2 on pg. 157) states that a guest user should be defined and assigned to have the share as a home directory and (what is worse) defined as the global guest account in the CIFS settings.
This setup does work, and the share is exported with read-write permissions. However, I don't see how this can apply to numerous shares, where I have to assign different "guest" users, each with a home directory corresponding to the share, but the global CIFS settings can only support 1 guest account.

Additionally the documentation states that one needs to set "Authentication Model: Anonymous" in the CIFS global settings, however that option ("Authentication Model") is not available from the web GUI

thanks

 

[dlavigne]

Just a note that 9.2.1.6 and 9.2.1.7 users should also refer to the Errata for their version as it indicates which screen options have changed since 9.2.1.