Win 2000 Pro File Sharing

[Ziov]

This has been a headache that I have been trying to figure out for the longest time now and I am completely stumped. I am running win 2000 pro, and I want to share my files with everyone else on my network.(win 98/98/xp/me/2000) Whenever someone trys to access my shared folders, it prompts them for a username and password. What I want to to is to let anybody access my shared folders without a username and password. Also, I do not want to enable Guest. If I enable guest, than I have to log into my computer every time I restart or start up. I dont want to log in....

To sum it all up:
Is there a way to access my shared files anonomously without a username and password without using guest?

 

[wolluf]

How many machines/users? Because the way is to set up a user account on your machine matching (ie, same user name & password) each of the user's credentials who want to access your machine's shares (I'm presuming its not a domain). For win9x/ME access in fact this is essential (they will just get a password prompt, which you can't give correct value to).

 

[Pjotter]

You should try "null session share". It works file in Win-NT and W2K. Should work in XP. Needs a little register hacking. To find info: go to microsoft site and look for info on "srvany" (tool to make service of every EXE. Is not what you look for i know, but still the info is here.). Look at the end of the readme. There is info om null sessions shares. I use it to let doamin and nondomain users access a share (in my case for readonly) without logging in.
(Don't have the file here, sorry).
Hope this helps. Is not, let me know.

Greeting.

 

[Ziov]

Yes, I found this page and I followed its instructions.

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...ben-us;289655

But there is still problems. For the sharename I used:

My computer name:

Slacker
\\Slacker

I also used my test folder name:

Test
test
D:\Test
D:\test

Also, I tried to use named pipes with those combos:

Slacker
\\Slacker
Test
test
D:\Test
D:\test

Also, I tried using those shares WITHOUT named pipes. And I did that last little part of:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA

On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:
Value Name: RestrictAnonymous
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0

After doing all that, and restarting several times. None of the other computers on my network can access me. They say either they dont have permissions, or they just cant access me.

What am I missing?? Or doing wrong?? Or not doing???

 

[Mekkins]

Are you on a domain or in a workgroup? Are the users accessing your shared folder in the same domain or workgroup as you are? Is your file system FAT or NTFS?

 

[Ziov]

I am in a workgroup HOME, all the other users are too. My file system is FAT and I think everyone elses is too...but I want to convert to NTFS. Also, I want users from other workgroups to be able to access the shared folders too.

 

[Mekkins]

Have you checked the permissions on the shared folder? Does it have Everyone listed? Are all the computers on your network Windows 2000?

 

[wolluf]

Ziov - I gave you a possible solution for sharing (specially if small network) earlier in this thread - di you try it?

 

[Ziov]

Wolluf - What I am trying to do, is let anyone access my computer on a LAN environment. This saturday I am going to a fairly large LAN party. And I want them to be able to access my shares. As I am going to be able to do to them. Now, I do not want to make a user name and pass for everyone. Nor do I want to enable guest. If worse comes to worse, I guess I will have to...but I dont want to.


Mekkins - Read the above please. After that, when you go from your desktop, and click "My Network Places" and from there to any work group and you see the computers? When you double click on mine, it says "Network source is not accessible" or something like that. They cant even get into my computer without a user name and pass. How can we get past that part? They cant even see the folders yet. Just get onto my computer....

 

[wolluf]

Ziov,

If its just a one-off, enabling guest is probably best bet (you can disable it when finished).
I didn't understand your earlier comment 'If I enable guest, than I have to log into my computer every time I restart or start up'. You don't - shares will be accessible whether you are logged on or not if Guest account is enabled.

 

[Ziov]

When I enabled guest last time, Win2k forced me to auto log on as Guest. So every time I started my computer I would be logged on as guest, I would have to log off, and log back on as me. The only way I this would happen is if I had guest disabled.

 

[wolluf]

That's never happened to me. Enabling guest makes no difference to my logon. Do you have system set to autologon as you currently?

 

[Ziov]

Yes, I always have it auto log me in, but the last time i enabled guest, it logged me in as guest.