File sharing (on a home network) question
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I have a number of computers at home, and they are not joined in a domain. Now, on my machine, say I have shared a folder, ie Anton_Shared. My machine has, for example, 2 account (besides the default Administrator and Guest) : Anton, and TestUser. I have given Everyone full access to the share (I believe Everyone actually means Everyone On This Machine). Now, I login to our Media Center machine. It has a completely different account. Now, in order to access the Anton_Shared on my machine, I am forced to type a username that is available on my machine (ie. Anton), and its password. The question is whether it is possible to allow _absolutely anyone_ to access the shared folder. ie, no authentication required. If it matters, both machines are running Vista, but I want the same functionality available from other machines, which may run XP or Win2K3 (doubt I will have anything else at home). Is this somehow possible from Windows? How? Thanks in advance.
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I have a number of computers at home, and they are not joined in a domain. Now, on my machine, say I have shared a folder, ie Anton_Shared. My machine has, for example, 2 account (besides the default Administrator and Guest) : Anton, and TestUser. I have given Everyone full access to the share (I believe Everyone actually means Everyone On This Machine). Now, I login to our Media Center machine. It has a completely different account. Now, in order to access the Anton_Shared on my machine, I am forced to type a username that is available on my machine (ie. Anton), and its password. The question is whether it is possible to allow _absolutely anyone_ to access the shared folder. ie, no authentication required. If it matters, both machines are running Vista, but I want the same functionality available from other machines, which may run XP or Win2K3 (doubt I will have anything else at home). Is this somehow possible from Windows? How? Thanks in advance.
In Vista -- Network and Sharing Center (right click, properties of Network or just type in search to find). Turn password protected sharing off.
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In Vista -- Network and Sharing Center (right click, properties of Network or just type in search to find). Turn password protected sharing off.
I've seen that setting before. But my understanding is that once I disable password protected sharing, all shared folders will not be password-protected. How about making some folders password protected, and some not? Any ideas?
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I've seen that setting before. But my understanding is that once I disable password protected sharing, all shared folders will not be password-protected. How about making some folders password protected, and some not? Any ideas?
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I have a number of computers at home, and they are not joined in a domain. Now, on my machine, say I have shared a folder, ie Anton_Shared. My machine has, for example, 2 account (besides the default Administrator and Guest) : Anton, and TestUser. I have given Everyone full access to the share (I believe Everyone actually means Everyone On This Machine). Now, I login to our Media Center machine. It has a completely different account. Now, in order to access the Anton_Shared on my machine, I am forced to type a username that is available on my machine (ie. Anton), and its password. The question is whether it is possible to allow _absolutely anyone_ to access the shared folder. ie, no authentication required. If it matters, both machines are running Vista, but I want the same functionality available from other machines, which may run XP or Win2K3 (doubt I will have anything else at home). Is this somehow possible from Windows? How? Thanks in advance.
Why don't you just create a subfolder under the Public Shared Documents folder? That folder already has public sharing privs.
-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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I have a number of computers at home, and they are not joined in a domain. Now, on my machine, say I have shared a folder, ie Anton_Shared. My machine has, for example, 2 account (besides the default Administrator and Guest) : Anton, and TestUser. I have given Everyone full access to the share (I believe Everyone actually means Everyone On This Machine). Now, I login to our Media Center machine. It has a completely different account. Now, in order to access the Anton_Shared on my machine, I am forced to type a username that is available on my machine (ie. Anton), and its password. The question is whether it is possible to allow _absolutely anyone_ to access the shared folder. ie, no authentication required. If it matters, both machines are running Vista, but I want the same functionality available from other machines, which may run XP or Win2K3 (doubt I will have anything else at home). Is this somehow possible from Windows? How? Thanks in advance.
I wrote a lengthy article here on file sharing in XP. It should be helpful and if you follow the steps you should be able to reproduce it on Vista as well. Click my profile and view my articles.