Re: Sharing folders that everybody can read ?

Enable the guest account on the computer where you want anonymous access to
the share, give everyone read permissions to the share and folder [NTFS],
and on the computer with the share disable the security option
accounts:limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only in
Local security Policy. -- Steve


"Mike Fields" <spam_me_not_mr.gadget2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sort of along the same lines as "Read Shared File from Other PC"
post, but I didn't want to hijack his. Windows XP Pro multiple
machines. Simple file sharing turned off. Trying to figure out
how to let ANYBODY read a folder. I have read the resource
kit info, played with the permissions etc. If I try and open the
folder from another machine where the account name is the
same on both machines, but different passwords, I get the dialog
box asking for name/password. If I enter guest (I enabled the
guest account), I can get in. If I type the current user name,
I get in. Once it has let me in then subsequent attempts open
without the dialog. What I want to do is have it let anybody
read the files in that folder. If I set a folder on my windoze 98
machine to share, read-only that can be read on the first try without any
issue. I just can't figure out how to do it in XP-Pro
(have SP2 and other updates installed). If I try it from an
account where the names/passwords match on both machines,
I get in with no problem. Which piece of the puzzle have
I missed (I am sharing the virus definitions to other machines
in the network that do not have internet access .. machines
in the kids rooms ;-) )

--
Mikey aka "mr.gadget"



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