Completely open share?

Server W2K3 in Workgroup.
Clients in domain, or AD domain.

I'd like to make a share which is completely open for anyone to "map"
or read/write files and directories. I don't want them prompted at all
for usernames or passwords. This seems such a simple thing to want.

This is part of a migration plan out of the old domain, the data will
be contained on a small private network with effectively two users,
both of whom will have read/write access to any share with write access
allowed.

Currently whatever I do I seem to get "System error 5" "Access is
denied", or a login prompt. I guess failing that we need to create a
local user with read/write on the W2003 server and script a map to
happen at boot time on the relevant servers?

Create identical user accounts on the machine with the "share" as the
accounts on the user's machine. Everything must match. Grant those accouts
permission to the Share with "share-level" Permissions. Grant those
accounts access to the files/folders with NTFS Permissions.

The other option is to enabel and use the Guest account.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


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> Server W2K3 in Workgroup.
> Clients in domain, or AD domain.
>
> I'd like to make a share which is completely open for anyone to "map"
> or read/write files and directories. I don't want them prompted at all
> for usernames or passwords. This seems such a simple thing to want.
>
> This is part of a migration plan out of the old domain, the data will
> be contained on a small private network with effectively two users,
> both of whom will have read/write access to any share with write access
> allowed.
>
> Currently whatever I do I seem to get "System error 5" "Access is
> denied", or a login prompt. I guess failing that we need to create a
> local user with read/write on the W2003 server and script a map to
> happen at boot time on the relevant servers?
>