Share Permissions on 2000 and 2003

June 30, 2008

I have a file (a Crystal report) in a share that I want to access from

an app

installed on computers that are on a different domain from the server

on which the

share exists. There is no trust set up between the two

domains. Previously this file was held on a Windows 2000 server and I

had no problems accessing it. Now the file is located on a Windows

2003 server and I can no longer access it. The share permissions are

the same on the new server as they were on the old one and I realise

that the Everyone token is no longer handed out to anonymous logons

anymore by default in 2003 so I enabled the default domain controller

policy setting to allow everyone permissions to apply to anonymous

users. I've also added the anonymous and everyone security groups to

the the pre-windows 2000 compatible security group but I still can't

access the file.

Is there a limitation in 2003 that also says the anonymous user

access

request must come from the same domain as the domain on which the

resource being requested exists? If so can someone confirm that this

never used to be the case on 2000 and also help me find a way to

access this file?

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