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Windows 2003 file sharing

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by louislewis

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I am creating a server enviroment at one of our new factories. For a tempory solution i have installed windows server 2003 standard edition on a tempory server, until my newly ordered server arrives. I have not installed any server roles as yet. Though i created a shared folder and aeven after setting the access control list it still ask for a username and password when you try access the share from a workstation. Workstations are running Windows XP pro and they and the server are still all on workgroup

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by churdoo

The server still needs to know who is connecting to its file shares. It's not enough to give the Everyone object full control. You still need to create the usernames/passwords on the server corresponding to the users that will be connecting to the file shares. One other option will be to create a single generic account on the server which you can distribute to your users; let them connect to the server using that account until the new server arrives.

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