Sharing to anonymous users on the network..

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Geir A S

Hi all!

Got a little problem.. On my WinXP pro machine, I have
created a share. It's shared to Everyone, and Everyone
have all rights in NTFS. But when I try to connect to
this share from a WinNT 4.0/Win98/Win2000 computer, I
only get prompted for logonname and password. I've
enabled Guest, I've also added the share, in GP, under
Network access: Shares that can be accessed anonymously,
and changed Network Access: Let Everyone permissions
apply to anonymous users to Enable. I've also tried:
Network Access: Sharing and security model for local
accounts: Guest only - local users authencticate as Guest.

Help me!! ;)

Thanks for all answers!
 
Geir A S said:
Got a little problem.. On my WinXP pro machine, I have
created a share. It's shared to Everyone, and Everyone
have all rights in NTFS. But when I try to connect to
this share from a WinNT 4.0/Win98/Win2000 computer, I
only get prompted for logonname and password. I've
enabled Guest, I've also added the share, in GP, under
Network access: Shares that can be accessed anonymously,
and changed Network Access: Let Everyone permissions
apply to anonymous users to Enable. I've also tried:
Network Access: Sharing and security model for local
accounts: Guest only - local users authencticate as Guest.
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Geir,

the solution is in the Guest related chapters of
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm. My first guess would be
the deny network access policy. Please read it below.

Hans-Georg


Simple file sharing, Guest account and anonymous access problems

Background: Simple file sharing, the only method on Windows XP
Home and one of two choices on Windows XP Professional, always
uses the Guest account. (Classic file sharing also automatically
uses the Guest account if the original logon request fails.) If
access through the Guest account is inhibited, then sharing
cannot work, except when logging on to XP Professional with
classic file sharing through another account.

There is a user rights policy to deny network access to certain
users and groups, which contains a SUPPORT user and, by default,
Guest. If Guest is included here, guest and anonymous access
(all users who do not have an account with the same username and
password on the target computer) from other computers is not
possible and yields the error message, "Logon failure: The user
has not been granted the required logon type at this computer.".
Double-click on the policy and remove Guest from it if you want
to allow anonymous access.

Windows NT and 2000 automatically treat failed attempts to log
on over the network in a second attempt to log them on
anonymously, i.e. as Guest. Windows XP can do this too, but it
may have to be enabled first, particularly on XP Professional.

For network access to Windows XP Pro with classic file sharing
(Simple File Sharing disabled) through the Guest account, the
Guest account has to be enabled on Windows XP and network login
for the Guest account has to be permitted in Computer
Management, Local Users and Groups.
 
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