Hyper-V (stand alone), sharing folders without password prompting?

[Lord Wolf]

This is the best place I could find to post this topic since Hyper-V is generally a part of Windows Server 2008, so please move the topic if it should be elsewhere.

I've got a couple of shares set up within Hyper-V so that other computers can access files within those folders. The dilemma I'm facing is that I don't know how to disable the requirement for a username/password to access the shares. If it were a more full version of WS2008, I'd go to the network sharing center and change the settings there. However with stand-alone HV, there is not sharing center to go to. I was hoping someone might know of another way to change the settings so that if a share is set to 'everyone', then it won't prompt for a password (otherwise they need to have the proper credentials).

[cluberti]

You would need to enable the guest account on the server, and explicitly provide guest account access to shares and folders (NTFS permissions will still apply, and "guest" is not a part of the "Everyone" group!).

[Lord Wolf]

I've done that. As I've found out, it's not possible in the stand alone version (free version from MS) . I may just have to resort to installing an actual core instead of a stand-alone in order to accomplish this.

Thanks for the response.

Edited December 31, 2010 by Lord Wolf

[cluberti]

That could be true, as hyper-v server 2008 core is specifically tailored for running hyper-v only, and not for running other things.

[Lord Wolf]

That could be true, as hyper-v server 2008 core is specifically tailored for running hyper-v only, and not for running other things.

I had asked on another site as well (social.ms) and basically a paid version of Server R2 should be able to do it, even if it's just a core install. The free version (Hyper-Visor or whatever the true name is) doesn't have it since it's just a bare bones product.