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Using Temporary VPN with Windows Server 2003 File Permissions
Our VPN is down due to an AT&T issue. Long story.
We can use LogMeIn Hamachi as a temporary easy VPN setup.
Users can connect to the server and see the folders, but can not access them--they do not have access to them because they are not logged in via Active Directory/the server.
How can we temporary rectify this?
We can use LogMeIn Hamachi as a temporary easy VPN setup.
Users can connect to the server and see the folders, but can not access them--they do not have access to them because they are not logged in via Active Directory/the server.
How can we temporary rectify this?
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gta2011: Have you tried mapping the drives using alternate user credentials? (This would be using the "Connect using different credentials" checkbox in the map network drive dialog (on Windows 7 at least)).
I would expect that to work if the users specify their domain credentials in the "alternate credentials" box.
I would expect that to work if the users specify their domain credentials in the "alternate credentials" box.
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mwheeler1982: They use XP, not Windows 7.
gta2011: Windows XP allows you to map a drive using different credentials as well, I'm just not sure what the dialog box is called as I do not have a XP machine around. It should be pretty apparent what the option is when the "map network drive" dialog is open.
You can (also insecure) map a network drive with "net use" on the command line and specify a password like this:
net use Z: \\fileserver\share PasswordGoesHere /user:domain\username
There are also solutions like CPAU (http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/) if you do not want them to see the password, but that's a bit more than you may need in an emergency.
You can (also insecure) map a network drive with "net use" on the command line and specify a password like this:
net use Z: \\fileserver\share PasswordGoesHere /user:domain\username
There are also solutions like CPAU (http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/) if you do not want them to see the password, but that's a bit more than you may need in an emergency.
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mwheeler1982:
What do you mean "Make sure you give "Anonymous" access in both the Share permissions and the NTFS permissions."
What do you mean "Make sure you give "Anonymous" access in both the Share permissions and the NTFS permissions."
When configuring a file share, there are permissions on the share itself as well as NTFS permissions. If you right click on a shared folder, you'll see two tabs: "Security" and "Sharing". Both allow you to control permissions.
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mwheeler1982:
Under sharing tab, i click on permissions and it says this has been shared for administrative purposes. The permissions cannont be set.
I have added anonymous under security but I still can not connect to the share via the Hamachi VPN.
Under sharing tab, i click on permissions and it says this has been shared for administrative purposes. The permissions cannont be set.
I have added anonymous under security but I still can not connect to the share via the Hamachi VPN.
It sounds like you're sharing the root of the drive? Are you accessing something like \\servername\D$ ? If that's the case, those shares are (as described) meant for administrative purposes only and you may not be able to fully configure the permissions.
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It is a root share--the D drive. How can I share them to a person over the Hamaci VPN without logging in? Again this is just temporary.
At this point, I'm out of ideas. Root shares are not meant to be used for anything other than administrative purposes. Can you try sharing out a single folder with the Anonymous user having both Share and NTFS permissions to see if that works?
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I did share the folder. Thanks for all your help. I wish I could award 10,000 points.
Glad I was able to help!
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).
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