Lord Flashheart 2022 年 3 月 21 日 下午 10:02
Sharing a folder on network - why so hard?
Hi all
I am trying to share a folder on a windows machine.
I want it a public share (read only) .Most importantly - NO PASSWORD.
It seems to be elusive.

The reason:
Main machine windoes 10/linux - with windows for gaming only.

Another windows 10 machine to share files from - it is a virtual one on my old machine - now a server.
It has one job - to download/update games to my games backup. The games are backup up on the server only. It is iscsi store, so only one machine can access it - specifically the windows 10 virtual machine.

game updates/downloads are through a lancache server - which helps downloads about 90% of the time.
If not, wish to sync them using freefilesync.

Sharing the drive is a way to do this.
So not Microsoft account - local account only - windows share with NO password?
Does anyone know how to do this?
It seems very elusive.

Useful info appreciated.
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Lord Flashheart 2022 年 3 月 23 日 下午 5:13 
Well it seems I found the 'solution'
It was here:
http://woshub.com/anonymous-access-shared-folders-printers-windows/

Lots of tinkering and messing around.
linux networking is typically more straight forward.

I can access my read only, no password share in windows.
Not linux though.

It took a long long time. It involved changing file permissions on 4TB of game files.
Those 4TB of files are my games backup - on a NAS with redundancy, snapshots & stored on hard drives - for good reason.

What a sucky experience.

Of course I made a backup of the windows 10 virtual machine involved, as I half expect it to be borked through a windows update.

I understand there are people who have to deal with networking & user access related to windows, as their job. I do not envy them.
最後修改者:Lord Flashheart; 2022 年 3 月 23 日 下午 5:14
emoticorpse 2022 年 3 月 23 日 下午 5:28 
引用自 Dr StrangeGlove
Well it seems I found the 'solution'
It was here:
http://woshub.com/anonymous-access-shared-folders-printers-windows/

Lots of tinkering and messing around.
linux networking is typically more straight forward.

I can access my read only, no password share in windows.
Not linux though.

It took a long long time. It involved changing file permissions on 4TB of game files.
Those 4TB of files are my games backup - on a NAS with redundancy, snapshots & stored on hard drives - for good reason.

What a sucky experience.

Of course I made a backup of the windows 10 virtual machine involved, as I half expect it to be borked through a windows update.

I understand there are people who have to deal with networking & user access related to windows, as their job. I do not envy them.

That does really suck and at face value makes one more good reason I'm glad I didn't waste my time with Linux. I've shared folders and accessed them with android no hiccups and ps4 if I remember correctly.
Lord Flashheart 2022 年 3 月 23 日 下午 5:49 
引用自 emoticorpse
引用自 Dr StrangeGlove
Well it seems I found the 'solution'
It was here:
http://woshub.com/anonymous-access-shared-folders-printers-windows/

Lots of tinkering and messing around.
linux networking is typically more straight forward.

I can access my read only, no password share in windows.
Not linux though.

It took a long long time. It involved changing file permissions on 4TB of game files.
Those 4TB of files are my games backup - on a NAS with redundancy, snapshots & stored on hard drives - for good reason.

What a sucky experience.

Of course I made a backup of the windows 10 virtual machine involved, as I half expect it to be borked through a windows update.

I understand there are people who have to deal with networking & user access related to windows, as their job. I do not envy them.

That does really suck and at face value makes one more good reason I'm glad I didn't waste my time with Linux. I've shared folders and accessed them with android no hiccups and ps4 if I remember correctly.

Interesting.
It is windows networking I have a problem with.
All shares for me are through a NAS - specifically truenas.
I have no issue accessing the NAS network shares of various types in linux and windows.
As for android, looked into it, and it is spyware/adware to the extreme, where any file privacy is a joke.

Microsoft of course make it difficult to deal with any other OS. linux is free. MS software - especially the enterprise and server products, are far from free.
最後修改者:Lord Flashheart; 2022 年 3 月 23 日 下午 5:51
Bad 💀 Motha 2022 年 3 月 23 日 下午 7:07 
Again you have to set the SHARE for various Users. In Windows OS this means adding "Everyone" and "Guest" as available users to the share options.

Then, on both Windows OS machines you need to adjust the Network Sharing Settings and disable the Password option under the Private Network area if you do not want that. If using Win8 or later, make sure the Network is set to Private, not Public. As MS has the default set to Public.

It's not hard, but ever since Vista we have had to jump through some extra hoops to do it.
最後修改者:Bad 💀 Motha; 2022 年 3 月 23 日 下午 7:08
Lord Flashheart 2022 年 3 月 23 日 下午 8:51 
引用自 Bad 💀 Motha
Again you have to set the SHARE for various Users. In Windows OS this means adding "Everyone" and "Guest" as available users to the share options.

Then, on both Windows OS machines you need to adjust the Network Sharing Settings and disable the Password option under the Private Network area if you do not want that. If using Win8 or later, make sure the Network is set to Private, not Public. As MS has the default set to Public.

It's not hard, but ever since Vista we have had to jump through some extra hoops to do it.

I have got it working as needed. Not with linux yet. It not essential for my needs, but would be helpful. I may stumble upon the linux fix at some point.
Elucidator 2022 年 3 月 23 日 下午 8:59 
引用自 Dr StrangeGlove
Well it seems I found the 'solution'
It was here:
http://woshub.com/anonymous-access-shared-folders-printers-windows/
I'm just a home user...
Unfortunately my knowledge was lacking I guess. Its hard to imagine what is going on. (I was also late with re-visiting this thread again) That said I would have mentioned something else and it likely wouldn't have been helpful (now that I look at what you found).

One thing I never really understood was what Microsoft calls an active directory, but it seems to refer to a shared folder.

well, windows security is kinda a pain to understand completely I guess.
You don't normally get to interact with that unless you need to work with it I guess... e.e;
glad you figured it out and the link you posted maybe useful for others, and maybe if I get curious enough to read everything there I might look myself, so yeah- thanks for sharing that basically
emoticorpse 2022 年 3 月 24 日 上午 3:02 
引用自 Elucidator
引用自 Dr StrangeGlove
Well it seems I found the 'solution'
It was here:
http://woshub.com/anonymous-access-shared-folders-printers-windows/
I'm just a home user...
Unfortunately my knowledge was lacking I guess. Its hard to imagine what is going on. (I was also late with re-visiting this thread again) That said I would have mentioned something else and it likely wouldn't have been helpful (now that I look at what you found).

One thing I never really understood was what Microsoft calls an active directory, but it seems to refer to a shared folder.

well, windows security is kinda a pain to understand completely I guess.
You don't normally get to interact with that unless you need to work with it I guess... e.e;
glad you figured it out and the link you posted maybe useful for others, and maybe if I get curious enough to read everything there I might look myself, so yeah- thanks for sharing that basically

I don't think he needs to mess with Active Directory. It would only complicate things. That's for SERIOUS IT stuff with domains and trees and forests and multiple logins like businesses. Especially if he's not messing with passwords. If i remember correctly that's the actual name of the service/windows utility that you use to do all this management too. Like when you install a Windows server the desktop will be like empty and there will be like one desktop shortcut and active directory will be it. I think in any home/pro Windows environment you use the local security policy thing or computer management snapins to manage simple user credentials and stuff like that.
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