win95 and network share

[ejstrom]

I have a network of 450 users. Some are using win98 and authenticate to my nt4 box. Some are using win98 and are just hooked to the lan and don't authenticate. The rest are using win95 and do not authenticate.
My problem:
I have a public share on the nt box that contains the latest Mcafee superdat.
All the machines that authenticate can reach the share without a password. this is good.
All the win98 machines that are just on the lan can reach the share without a password. this is good.
All the win95 machines that are just on the lan cannot get to the share without giving a password. THIS IS BAD

How do I get the win95 machines to get to the share without using a password?

Any ideas would be helpful

 

[yizhar]

HI!

You have several options:

* I think that upgrading to the latest MCAFFEE product for networks, will allow easier DAT deployment without need for file shares.

* I think this is the best for you (if not above):
Copy the folder contents to a shared folder on a Win98 machine, and set the Win95 machines to get files from there.
The advantage here is that you don't degrade security on your server.
There are several tools to syncronize folders on the network.
You can write a BAT file that uses "xcopy /d", and schedule it.
You can use the MM program from my NUTS utilities, on the Win98 machine:

http://teachers.sivan.co.il/yizhar/#nuts

Or a different utility.

* You can enable the GUEST account on the NT server, and give "Everyone" read access to the shared folder.
This posses a security risk on your server.

* Go to one of the Win98 machines that do not login to domain, but can access the share.
Press Start - LogOff.
Check what username is used.
Go to the Win95 machines.
Press Start - Shutdown - Close all program and log on as a different user.
Type the same username as used by the 98 computers. It is probably with an empty password.

You'll probably find that this account is also a security risk if it has no password!

Bye

Yizhar Hurwitz

http://come.to/yizhar

http://teachers.sivan.co.il/yizhar