Macintosh Clients Can Connect to LAN Manager Servers as Guests
ID: Q130837
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The information in this article applies to:
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Microsoft LAN Manager, version 2.2c
SUMMARY
If your OS/2 server is running Microsoft LAN Manager Services for
Macintosh, and Macintosh clients have "Connect as Guest" grayed out, you
can still enable Macintosh guest access to a LAN Manager server.
MORE INFORMATION
To enable Macintosh guest logons to the server:
- In the [macfile] Section of the LANMAN.INI, add the macguest entry (if
it isn't already there). For the value of macguest, specify the username
of the account that will be used as the guest account.
- Create a user account for the guest account. This account must have the
username you specified in the macguest entry, it must have guest
privilege, and it cannot have a password.
To create a guest account that has no password on a server where you
require all other user accounts to have a certain [minimum] length, use
the NETUSER command to create the account, instead of using the LAN
Manager Screen for Administrators. When using the NET USER command, use
the /PASSWORDREQ:NO option to specify that the account does not have to
have a password.
For example, the following command creates a Macintosh guest logon
account with username mac_guest, guest privilege, and no password:
netuser /add mac_guest/passwordreq:no/privilege:guest
- Stop and restart the MacFile service.
Guest logons are now permitted.
NOTE: This information is also in the LAN Manager Services for Macintosh
"Administrator's Guide."
REFERENCE
Microsoft LAN Manager Services for Macintosh "Administrator's
Guide," version 1.0, page 39.
Additional query words:
2.20 lanman mac net user
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