Creating anonymous share?

From: tcg23 (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/20/03 

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:29:23 -0700

If you enable the guest account and give the guest account
read access to the folder, you should be able to access
the share without a username and password.
That should work,
-TheComputerGuy23
>-----Original Message-----
>Is it possible to create a share that allows anonymous
access? I want to
>share a folder on the network that will allow anybody
(weather they are a
>member of the domain or not) to access it without their
computer prompting
>them for credentials.
>
>Thanks!!
>
>
>.
>

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