Anonymous network access

[snootalope]

Hello

We've got a remote Windows XP machine that is NOT part of our active directory domain. The machine is connected to our network though via a vpn. I've got admin privileges on the machine so I can change whatever..

We've got a number of shares on the machine that need to be accessed via people in our domain. However, we can't add the pc to our domain because of other business reasons..

When users in our domain type in \\192.168.2.2\ (remote pc's IP address) they get a prompt for a username and password. I'm trying to get rid of that so anyone in our domain can anonymously access the remote PC.

How do i do this? Is it possible?

I've messed with the Local Security Policy and the "Network Access:...." options....to no avail yet..

 

[Diancecht]

What about "net use" from command line?

http://www.computing.net/windowsnt/wwwboard/forum/22586.html

Cheers,
Dian

 

[snootalope]

I've tried that using this:

net use L:\\IP_ADDRESS\Share

and get this message:

System error 67 has occurred.
The Network Name cannot be found.

However, I can ping IP_ADDRESS just fine from any machine in our domain.

??

 

[Diancecht]

Is it a typo or are you lacking a space?

net use L: \\IP_ADDRESS\Share

Cheers,
Dian

 

[andyDaDawg]

If your able to ping the address and the only error your getting is "System 67 Network Name cannot be found" then you need to have the "Workstation" service running in your services at the client end.
I assume you know how to turn services on/off on an Xp box.

If you don't then do the following
Control Panel->Admin Tools->Services
Select workstation and goto properties of the services. Make it "automatic" and start the service.
Also make sure that this service starts by default every time your system boots up.
You can do this by running "msconfig" from your run window. just check the box for workstation
Also ensure that the server is running the "Server" service.
hope this helped
-A