Re: Allowing file share browsing for un-authenticated users

On 27 May, 04:04, Nonapept...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply, James!

Your pointer to the Local Policies >> Security Settings node in local
security policy opened up some new possibilities for me.

Let me restate my goal. What I really need is to create a public
folder or two on the file server (much like the public folder on XP or
Vista). That way anyone can access files in those folders without
being prompted for username and password. Other shares can, and
probably should stay access restricted.

At first I thought "Network access: Named pipes that can be accessed
anonymously" and "Network access: Shares that can be accessed
anonymously" would be the way to go, but after messing with it I now
think otherwise. When a Windows client tries to access shares on
another computer in a workgroup, it seems to send the credentials of
the local machine and user, so in effect it's not try to access it
anonymously. Unless I'm missing something anonymous shares are not the
way to go. Neither is allowing the ANONYMOUS_LOGON access to the share
because again the logon attempt isn't really anonymous. Argh.

What befuddles me is that this behaviour is default in XP and Vista.
If you share something, everyone can access it on the network without
username and password. I've just taken that behaviour for granted. I
can't help but thinking to myself that this should be alot simpler
than I'm making it.

I know I'm missing something obvious. Back to Googling...


I have had this with windows xp.. Being prompted for a user/pass..

I have found it just to be whether you choose AFS or SFS..
Either can prompt you, in a different way.

if you don't like the prompt, them either way you can get rid of it.
Slightly more easily with SFS. If SFS is prompting you then it's not
set up right e.g. Guest account is disabled perhaps. With AFS, if you
have identical accounts it will prob not prompt you.

And that setting I mentioned switches between AFS and SFS.

And I mentioned how not to get the prompts with them.

I only know Win XP though for file sharing.
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