SFS Problem

[Guest]

When I go into Windows explorer and disable Simple File Sharing, when I
restart it is enabled again.

I am trying to push out some AV updates and cannot because SFS is enabled on
all workstations on our LAN.

1, Is there a setting in group policy to allow me to globaly turn off SFS?

2, When it keeps enabling itself, why is this happening? I AM running group
policy on all workstations so wondering if a setting is coming from there?

Thanks

 

[Steven L Umbach]

It should be disabled already if your computers are in an Active Directory
domain. Anyhow you can use Group Policy to manage the security option for
network access: sharing and security model for local accounts to be
"classic". The setting is found in computer configuration\Windows
settings\security settings\local policies\security options and also is shown
in Local Security Policy.

Steve

 

[Guest]

Hi Steve

The workstations arn't in Active Directory, they are in EDirectory (Novell)
so think they are in a workgroup.
The group policy - network access: sharing and security model for local
accounts .... is set to "classic".

I have got around the problem now by pushing out a reg key to all workstations

HKLM\system\current control set\lsa\forceguest and set Dword to 0

But thanks for the reply

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Cool. That basically does the same thing as setting Local Security Policy to
classic though interesting that classic did not seem to work as expected.
Glad you got it resolved.

Steve