Disable password protected sharing

Question

_{Wednesday, August 16, 2017 1:29 PM}

I need to allow unauthenticated access to a file share. This can be done my disableing password protected sharing, however it does not work when the file server is connected to a domain.

The other solution involves editing group policy to enable the guest account: http://nikolar.com/2015/03/10/creating-network-share-with-anonymous-access/

Quesion: from a security point of veiw is it an issue to enable the guest account like this apart from granting access to a single file share? Secondly will the changes be reverted by the domain group policy?

Thanks,

Joe

All replies (1)

_{Wednesday, August 16, 2017 2:04 PM ✅Answered}

Hello,

You can try either ways mentioned here to turn off password protected sharing:

https://www.kapilarya.com/how-to-turn-off-password-protected-sharing-in-windows-10

Hope this helps, Good luck :)

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