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Michael_Oz
Jan 08, 2013Luminary
Many security_mode=share issues here, what's the problem?
With Security Mode=share, people are having issues with new, non passworded shares, where Windows (7 & Vista & I think XP) asks for a userid/password for what should be an open/guest access. Seems ...
chirpa
Jan 29, 2013Luminary
NTGR abandoned Share security mode a few years ago. User mode with Guest access was the replacement, but not fully tested obviously for all scenarios.
Since its not supported anymore, and was only on Sparc, which is EOL, I doubt you'll see anything from NTGR on the issue.
Since its not supported anymore, and was only on Sparc, which is EOL, I doubt you'll see anything from NTGR on the issue.
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