Share with no authentication

[Phil J]

How can I set up a share that does not prompt for ANY
authentication on just a Workgroup network?

Allowing ANONYMOUS LOGON full rights doesn't even work.

What I'm trying to do is use a UNC path to a share on a
Win2K workstation that's hosting some CDs for a program.
Even if EVERYONE/ANONYMOUS LOGON are allowed full rights,
if you try to access the share manually from another
machine, it prompts for a logon.

If I create user accounts manually that match each other
workstations' local accounts, it works fine.

It would definitely work if we had a MS domain/Active
Directory set up, but we're currently a Novell shop.

Any ideas? I don't want to have to go a login script net
use drive-letter mapping batchfile route if I don't have
to. Thanks

 

[Steven L Umbach]

See the following link on how to enable null session shares in W2K. I have
not tried it myself because i never had the need but it may work for
ou. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289655

 

[Phil J]

Thanks for the link - I don't know how you'd ever come
across that in a kb search w/o knowing it originally.

We tried it, and at least one workstation we've tested is
now able to get in just fine. However, three others that
we've tested still run into the same problem and require a
l/p when we access the share manually.

Any other thoughts? I don't know why those would be
different - we verified the one that works does not have a
matching local account, and all of the workstations are
practically identical.

Thanks again

PJ

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Hmm. Was the guest account enabled on the machine that it worked on?? Assuming not,
check that the share and ntfs permissions both allow everyone, that the effective
Local Security Policy for access this computer from the network includes the everyone
group, and that the effective setting for security option for additional restrictions
for anonymous connections is not set to "no access without explicit anonymous
permissions" or at least set to be the same as the computer that it works on. ---
Steve