Guest Posted February 3, 2000 I am on an IPX LAN at college and I am running Windows 2000 Professional 2195. I know how to set everything up to post shared folders on the network and be seen on the network, however, anybody who tries to access my shares remotely is prompted for a password. In Windows NT 4, as long as you had the Guest accound enabled, everybody could access the folders no problem. This does not seem to work with WIN2k. To clarify my question.....How do i set up Windows 2000 to allow remote users to access my shared files without setting up accounts for each and every one of them? Share this post Link to post
Fusion 0 Posted February 3, 2000 in order to do this, first make sure all the computers are on the same workgroup. then go to sharing on your drives. select "create new share". Under "permissions", remove whatever is in the box, and "add" a new permission. Under the "select new users or groups" in the "look in" option, it should show your computer name. scroll down in this box until you see your workgroup name and select it. Now choose "everyone" from the list. Click "add", click OK and there you go. Do this with all drives you want shared. Keep in mind that all computers on your workgroup will be able to access your drives now, so if you only want select users on your workgroup to be able to access your drives you will have to use a slightly different method (which i am not very sure about, hehe) I'm sure other people here can add/correct me on my advice Fusion Share this post Link to post
cyb97 0 Posted February 4, 2000 1st: all computers doesn't have to be in the same workgroup, the difference is that everbody have to go the long way by browsing and broadcast for workgroups before getting to the right group. 2nd: You probably doesn't to allow the guest login again. SMB is a slow protocol for filesharing, if you have decided on using SMB you probably want to make accounts for those you want to allow access.. SMB filesharing does slow you computer down a lot on a big network with many users. FTP is a better choice, but you said IPX right? (who uses IPX these days?) -- cyb97 Share this post Link to post
