Should-be-simple folder share question

huppy · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:55

I've got a Vista laptop on a domain, and I want to create a share that can be accessed anonymously from my home PC on its own workgroup.

Is there any way to do this?

I've tried a few things - adding Everyone and Guest users to be share readers - and each time it always prompts for a domain username and password when I try and browse the shares on my laptop from start > run > \\<computername>. Anyone know a way to get around this?

IAmATeaf · 21 Feb 2008 at 20:57

Non password or non authenticated access to shares is a thing of the past these days, there is a registry hack to get around this but the easiest thing to do is to create the same username/password on both machines, should then allow you access.

huppy · 21 Feb 2008 at 21:34

Dammit, thats annoying.
Thanks for the reply.

Only thing is if one machine is on the domain, and the other isn't, is it possible to create the same username/password on both?

SentineL-X · 21 Feb 2008 at 22:59

You could just disable Simple file sharing on the machine and then type

\\machinename\c$ for the c drive and enter the username and password of that machine... save password and away you go...

username · 22 Feb 2008 at 23:52

I was tearing my hair out trying to make my xp vista, mac and N95 all communicate just to share files. I found this http://www.atopo.net/tool_miniserver.php

It needs setting up on the windows machine you want to share files from. You then drag the directories or files into it and type the url it gives you into your other machines on your network.

You can then download files onto the machine simple as pie. It even lets you upload too.

Totally simple to use and no password rubbish to sort out.