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Posted by Mike C. on December 14, 2006, 1:26 am
Please log in for more thread options Enabling the guest account did it :)
>I tried doing that on my end before making recommendations. I couldn't do
>it. Guest account, maybe...didn't try that one...but...definitely the
>"Everyone Includes Anonymous" thing did not work, it's the first thing I
>thought of :)
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>> First, let me just state that allowing anonymous write is a recipe
>> for disaster as anyone that can reach the machine on the network
>> is able to fill the disk, which if it is the boot disk can cause the
>> system to run out of space.
>>
>> There are two possible routes. One is to enable the Guest account
>> and grant the needed accesses to Guest at the NTFS and Share levels.
>> Alternatively one can more deeply weaken the server's defenses by
>> enabling anonymous access and naming the share as a share that can
>> be accesses anonymously (this is done in the machines security policy)
>>
>>> If this is not the correct group for this question please let me know.
>>>
>>> I am trying to allow anonymous access to a folder on a win2003 server.
>>> Our network does not use AD, we currently run novell with eDirectory, so
>>> the users do not have rights to windows servers. I have a folder that I
>>> would like to share and allow anonymous access to read and write to. I
>>> have tried everything I know, and can't figure it out. Please offer any
>>> suggestions you may have. If possible, I do not even want a
>>> username/password box to show up on the users screen, I would like for
>>> them to be able to access the share with the UNC name and have it open
>>> without ever asking them for a username. Thanks
>>>
>>> Nate
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