Guest Roadrunner Posted March 14, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008 On W2K Server you had to configure the registry to allow null sessions in order for a program or local service account on another computer in to access a shared folder. How is this accomplished on Windoes 2003 server? Do you configure the share to allow anonymous logins?
Guest neo [mvp outlook] Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Re: Null sessions in Wk3 You don't mention whether or not you are working in an Active Directory environment, but rather than turn on null (anonymous) access, why not just add the computer object to a group that has rights to said share. To give you an example, every computer object is a memeber of "Authenticated Users". If the group "Authenticated User" is granted read access on the share + ntfs, then services should be able to come across and read files w/out issue. "Roadrunner" <Roadrunner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2A45583C-F69E-4E40-94AB-A2603529C29C@microsoft.com... > On W2K Server you had to configure the registry to allow null sessions in > order for a program or local service account on another computer in to > access > a shared folder. How is this accomplished on Windoes 2003 server? Do you > configure the share to allow anonymous logins? > >
Guest Roadrunner Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Re: Null sessions in Wk3 Neo, Thank you for the advise. We do not run these servers in an AD environment, so I'm not sure this would work?? The problem occurs when a script or bat file on one server trys to write a file to a share on another server using the local system account. We were able to edit the registry on W2K using the following KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289655 As we get ready to move to windows 2003, we are not sure how to make this work. Any ideas?? Thanks again. "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: > You don't mention whether or not you are working in an Active Directory > environment, but rather than turn on null (anonymous) access, why not just > add the computer object to a group that has rights to said share. > > To give you an example, every computer object is a memeber of "Authenticated > Users". If the group "Authenticated User" is granted read access on the > share + ntfs, then services should be able to come across and read files > w/out issue. > > "Roadrunner" <Roadrunner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:2A45583C-F69E-4E40-94AB-A2603529C29C@microsoft.com... > > On W2K Server you had to configure the registry to allow null sessions in > > order for a program or local service account on another computer in to > > access > > a shared folder. How is this accomplished on Windoes 2003 server? Do you > > configure the share to allow anonymous logins? > > > > > > >
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