Re: Share a folder with no authentication


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Paul Pedersen wrote:
I need to share a folder on a server (2003) which anyone on the
network can access, regardless of domain or workgroup
membership, with no password or login required.

It seems like such a simple task, yet I can't find a way to do
it, and server people I've asked don't know how to do it either.
(Apparently it's not as common a request as I thought.)

Anyone know how to do this?


PS. I tried giving "Everyone" read/write access, but no dice -
any attempt to connect still asks for login info. I also tried
creating a special group for this, adding "Everyone" to it, and
giving that group access. Still didn't work.

See the following and add "anonyomous" as appropriate

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278259


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/kj


I'm not near the server at present, so I tried it with XP.

Thanks, that's progress. If I give sharing and security
permissions to both user Everyone and group ANONYMOUS LOGON
(either one alone does not seem to suffice), it almost works!

What I mean is that it works, IF the client computer is XP. If
it's Vista, it still presents a login dialog.

Can you help me get over the last obstacle?

It should work fine with a Server 2003 share.

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/kj


Thanks, but that was even worse. Even the XP client was asking for
logon info in that case.

I set up the share in Server 2003, giving both Everyone and
ANONYMOUS LOGON read & write access. With an XP client, the server
showed in the network, but I couldn't see any shares without
providing a logon. A Vista client, in the same workgroup as the XP
client, could not see the server at all. (FWIW, both clients are
able to use SQL Server data on that same server.)
I worked around the problem by moving the files to a network "disk
appliance". I'd really rather keep them on the server, but that just
doesn't seem to be possible. I'm surprised that such a simple and
obvious function cannot be provided by Windows Server.

"Seeing them" from browsing is different. You should be able to just
do a "net use * \\server\sharename"

If Server doesn't resolve you could do "net use *
\\x.x.x.x\sharename" with x.x.x.x the IP address of the server.



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/kj

When I do that, I am presented with a login box. The OK button is
grayed out until I enter a name.

Are you sure you correctly and compltetly implemented the
EveryoneIncludesAnonymous change? Which methode did you choose?


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/kj


No, I did not set EveryoneIncludesAnonymous on. That would affect all shares
on the server, and I'm concerned only with this one. I don't want to change
things that other people might have set up, or might set up in the future,
especially since they won't know that I have done it.

What I did was to explicitly give user Everyone and group ANONYMOUS LOGON
read/write/execute rights to that folder. That should have worked, but it
didn't - the results were as I described.



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