Provide guest access to your file share - AWS Storage Gateway

Provide guest access to your file share

You can configure your S3 File Gateway to allow guest access for any user that is able to provide the correct guest account username and password. If you want this to be the only method by which users can access your file gateway, then you do not need to join the gateway to a Microsoft Active Directory domain. You can also use this guest access method to create file shares on an S3 File Gateway that is a member of an Active Directory domain.

When you configure a file share to use the Guest Access authentication method, the guest access username is smbguest. Before you can create a file share using guest access, you need to change the default password for the smbguest user.

You can use the following procedure to change the password for the guest user smbguest.

To change the guest access password

  1. Open the Storage Gateway console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/home.

  2. Choose Gateways from the navigation pane on the left side of the console page, and then choose the Name of the gateway for which you want to provide guest access.

  3. From the Actions drop down menu, choose Edit SMB settings, and then choose Guest access settings.

  4. For Guest password, enter the guest access password you want to set, and then choose Save changes.