Null sessions in Wk3 - Roadrunne

On W2K Server you had to configure the registry to allow null sessions in
order for a program or local service account on another computer in to access
a shared folder.  How is this accomplished on Windoes 2003 server?  Do you
configure the share to allow anonymous logins?

Null sessions in Wk3 - neo [mvp outlook]

You don't mention whether or not you are working in an Active Directory
environment, but rather than turn on null (anonymous) access, why not just
add the computer object to a group that has rights to said share.

To give you an example, every computer object is a memeber of "Authenticated
Users".  If the group "Authenticated User" is granted read access on the
share + ntfs, then services should be able to come across and read files
w/out issue.

Null sessions in Wk3 - Roadrunne

Neo,

Thank you for the advise.  We do not run these servers in an AD environment,
so I'm not sure this would work??  The problem occurs when a script or bat
file on one server trys to write a file to a share on another server using
the local system account.  We were able to edit the registry on W2K using the
following KB:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289655

As we get ready to move to windows 2003, we are not sure how to make this
work.  Any ideas??  Thanks again.