Anonymous login to share

[Guest Gaspar]

I have a Windows 2003 Server folder that I want to share to everyone without

them having to login.

 

I added "Anonymous Logon" to folder's security (Read & Execute, List Folder

Contents and Read permissions), created the share and added "Anonymous

Logon" with read permissions.

 

But when I try to access the logon from a Windows XP, the login prompt

appears.

Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

[Guest Daniel H]

RE: Anonymous login to share

 

 

 

"Gaspar" wrote:

> I have a Windows 2003 Server folder that I want to share to everyone without

> them having to login.

>

> I added "Anonymous Logon" to folder's security (Read & Execute, List Folder

> Contents and Read permissions), created the share and added "Anonymous

> Logon" with read permissions.

>

> But when I try to access the logon from a Windows XP, the login prompt

> appears.

> Any ideas?

>

> Thanks!

>

>

>

 

Hy

 

I think you should use IIS with anonymous access. That will help you.

 

Daniel

[Guest Gaspar]

Re: Anonymous login to share

 

I don't understand why do I have to use IIS with a file system share.

 

Thanks.

 

"Daniel H" <Daniel H@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>

>

> "Gaspar" wrote:

>

>> I have a Windows 2003 Server folder that I want to share to everyone

>> without

>> them having to login.

>>

>> I added "Anonymous Logon" to folder's security (Read & Execute, List

>> Folder

>> Contents and Read permissions), created the share and added "Anonymous

>> Logon" with read permissions.

>>

>> But when I try to access the logon from a Windows XP, the login prompt

>> appears.

>> Any ideas?

>>

>> Thanks!

>>

>>

>>

>

> Hy

>

> I think you should use IIS with anonymous access. That will help you.

>

> Daniel

[Guest jwgoerlich@gmail.com]

Re: Anonymous login to share

 

How about granting the Everyone group permissions on the file system

(ntfs) and network share (cifs)? Then follow article 278259 to make

everyone include anonymous connections.

 

J Wolfgang Goerlich

 

Microsoft 278259, Everyone Group Does Not Include Anonymous Security

Identifier

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278259

 

On Dec 18, 9:00 am, "Gaspar" <gas...@noreply.com> wrote:

> I have a Windows 2003 Server folder that I want to share to everyone without

> them having to login.

>

> I added "Anonymous Logon" to folder's security (Read & Execute, List Folder

> Contents and Read permissions), created the share and added "Anonymous

> Logon" with read permissions.

>

> But when I try to access the logon from a Windows XP, the login prompt

> appears.

> Any ideas?

>

> Thanks!

[Guest Roger Abell [MVP]]

Re: Anonymous login to share

 

<jwgoerlich@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:a423bf28-68f4-46d2-b55e-46d9fc6562c1@j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com...

> How about granting the Everyone group permissions on the file system

> (ntfs) and network share (cifs)? Then follow article 278259 to make

> everyone include anonymous connections.

>

> J Wolfgang Goerlich

>

> Microsoft 278259, Everyone Group Does Not Include Anonymous Security

> Identifier

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278259

>

 

Yes, your sugguestion is relevant to successful anonymous access

(assuming they want Everyone to have access instead of just

Anonymous Logon), but if they do not set policy to allow anonymous

access, then the NTFS settings or definition of Everyone are rather

insufficient for this situation.

 

Roger

 

 

> On Dec 18, 9:00 am, "Gaspar" <gas...@noreply.com> wrote:

>> I have a Windows 2003 Server folder that I want to share to everyone

>> without

>> them having to login.

>>

>> I added "Anonymous Logon" to folder's security (Read & Execute, List

>> Folder

>> Contents and Read permissions), created the share and added "Anonymous

>> Logon" with read permissions.

>>

>> But when I try to access the logon from a Windows XP, the login prompt

>> appears.

>> Any ideas?

>>

>> Thanks!

>

[Guest Roger Abell [MVP]]

Re: Anonymous login to share

 

I would recommend that you look at using the Guest account

(enable Guest and grant share and NTFS permisson to it).

 

Enabling anonymous access, which is prereq to your approach

working, has much broader implications (than just granting to

Anonymous Logon at share and NTFS level for your need) as

it enables any pre-existing grant that would cover Anonymous

Logon. This can be quite broad if you also set the definition of

Everyone to include Anonymous Logon as Everyone is used in

a number of places.

 

The suggestion of looking into sharing via IIS is IMO a good

one as it avoids the issues of both enabling Guest and of allowing

anonymous accesses.

 

Roger

 

"Gaspar" <gaspar@noreply.com> wrote in message

news:O4MdM5XQIHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>I have a Windows 2003 Server folder that I want to share to everyone

>without them having to login.

>

> I added "Anonymous Logon" to folder's security (Read & Execute, List

> Folder Contents and Read permissions), created the share and added

> "Anonymous Logon" with read permissions.

>

> But when I try to access the logon from a Windows XP, the login prompt

> appears.

> Any ideas?

>

> Thanks!

>