Re: Guest access is prohibited.

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 8:54 AM Tom Deskevich <TDeskevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I am trying to get a customer hosted on our IBM I and in order for them to
> view an image, they have to read a file via UNC from their remote PC that
> exists on our IBM I in a shared folder that allows guest access. Their IT
> will not allow guest access via the firewall. The only way I can get it to
> work is to map a drive to the shared folder and set it up with the IBM I
> credentials that exists on our hosted IBM i. But I know mapped drives can
> be a security risk. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I cannot run a CL
> program with hijacked security because this is a windows function. There
> are hundreds of users and it would not be feasible to add them to the
> security on the guest shared folder. I see searching the internet you can
> create a shortcut or set the path up in quick access. But do not see any
> way to force that to use the IBM I credentials.

Live-replicate the files yourself to somewhere your customers can access.
Google Drive? DropBox? etc.