Re: Win98 clients cannot connect to SBS2003 anonymously

Yes
The fix is to upgrade all those completely outdated workstations and quit trying to circumvent all the security that is intended to be part of a windows server domain
 
why not just create user accounts on the server and have them login properly?

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Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
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I have upgraded my network from SBS2000 to SBS2003 /so Windows 2000
Server to Windows Server 2003/.

In SBS2000 network all client are able connect anonymously (using user
name, that does not exists on server, so they are logged as Guest) to
network shares hosted on Windows 2000 Server.

When I switched to SBS2003 Windows 98 clients are not able to connect
annonymously to network shares (using map network dirive). (Other
clients as Windows 2000 and Windows XP can connect !!! and more Windows
95 clients can also connect !!!)
When I am logged to Windows98 as "user1" and user1 does not exists on
server, I cannoct connect and error "Device does not exists on network"
is returned !
When I am logged to Windows98 as "user2" and user2 exists on server, I
can connect and all works fine. (and also when I am logged to Windows 98
  as Guest with empty password, I can connect to network shares !!!)

I have trying all : Installing IE6SP1, installing dsclient.exe,
disabling "Digital signing" in group policy, setting "Let everyone
permission apply to anonymous users", ...

And one interesant point, when I install dsclient.exe on Windows 95,
Windows 95 is no more able annonymously connect (before install is able)

Can anyone help me ... is there fix ?
Thanks very much
Laco.

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