How to mount a windows share as guest?
 

I am trying to map a share that is hosted by an Asus router which has an external drive connected. The share is setup as guest and works fine if accessed within the GUI (Kubuntu) but I want to mount it as a real mount point so that I can just open files directly instead of having to first download them.

When I try to mount by command line it prompts for a password. This is the command I am trying:

I also tried various combinations like -o guest or just guest or leaving that out etc... no go. It always prompts for a password.

How is this done?

I think this is what you are asking.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

this should work
you may need to be root or use sudo to issue the command.

Tried that already, it just prompts for a password.

I don't want to actually use fstab, as this is not really a permanent mount, ex: it may possibly be unavailable, and I don't want my system to lockup because it's trying to access it.

What happens when just press the enter key at the password prompt?
With Ubuntu you need to use sudo since root is disabled by default.

The syntax is:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/drive /mnt/drive -o username=guest,password=""

The password is actually your Kubuntu users password to allow sudo. You can add a line to your /etc/fstab to mount the drive at boot up if desired.

You should be able to open the files in the file browser without downloading...

Nope no go. I just keep getting access denied whether I use root or sudo.

It does work through GUI, but I'm hoping to have a real mount point. There is also an issue using the GUI where I can't delete anything, can only add.

If it helps this is what I get in dmesg:
Actually, I think I'm not even using the right command. I should be using smbmount right? How do I get that command? It's not valid on my system. I'm running Kubuntu.

You can use either smbmount or mount commands. In reality they call mount.cifs. Is samba installed? The file browser has a built in samba client which is why it works through the desktop.

Are you using the correct drive share name? Does the /mnt/drive directory exist?

You can see the share name via the smbclient command (May have to install samba first)
smbclient -L 192.168.1.1

Yeah don't have smbclient or any of the smb commands. I tried to guess what to type in apt-get but no luck finding what package gives those commands. Tried smb-client, samba, samba-common, samba-client etc...

That may be part of my issue, probably need those programs installed. Just not sure what they call it in my distro.

In a nutshell Kubuntu is a derivative of Ubuntu that uses KDE for the desktop environment. What version are you running?

Have you verified you are specifying the correct share name?

This the version: