Macintosh Clients Can Connect to LAN Manager Servers as Guests

PSS ID Number: Q130837

Article Last Modified on 02-1-2002

• Microsoft LAN Manager 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:

1. 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.



2. 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 




3. Stop and restart the MacFile service.

References

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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