share printer and folder

Hello

I have a Windows 2000 Pro machine on a peer to peer with mainly windows 98 machines.
I want to share 2 printers and one folder without having to add individual users to the share.
Is there a way I can allow anyone and everyone to access this share without having to add individual users?

Thanks in advance!

 

Rt click the folder, properties enable sharing, then you will have a permissions button, set it to everyone.

Basiscally same in the shared printer go to sharing tab.

mike

 

And jawdoc - you might know this but others reading the thread for advice may not. So to add on a little -

Unlike 9X, any NT system on a network (NT4/2K/XP/2003/etc.) will need to know who wants to connect to the shares. So each PC will have to have the user logged on with a username AND password.

On the NT PCs you have two choices:
- put each username/password into the local users section or
- enable the Guest account. It's there but disabled by default when any NT system other than XP-Home is installed.

Once the account information is in local users, you won't need to add them to any new shares, printers, whatever.

One other item - with 2K-Pro, the maximum simultaneous connections at any one time is 10 so if an 11th PC tries to connect it will not be able to. Server version doesn't have this limitation.

 

Thanks

Thanks Newt!

Thats what was confusing me!
Once again I appreciate the help!

 

disable user and password

Newt
How does it affect things if you disable
"User must enter an user name and password to use this computer" on the Windows 2000 machine?
Do you still have to enter all the users and password on the network?

Thanks again!

 

Disabling required logon for the PC won't affect how it deals with inbound network connections. No way that I'm aware of to change that behavior.

On a large domain based network (where 2K was designed to play) the domain controllers take care of this automatically. On a peer network like yours, you have to do it by hand.