Appendix C: Configuring Guest Access

To support guest access when running under Windows XP and later operating systems you must change a Windows default security setting. Starting with Windows XP, the Anonymous Logon group is no longer a member of the Everyone group by default. Microsoft made this change because, if system administrators did not realize that anonymous users were members of the Everyone group, they might inadvertently grant them access to resources only intended for authenticated users. In order to enable guest access, ExtremeZ-IP requires that the Anonymous Logon group be a member of the Everyone group. For operating systems that do not support this behavior by default, a system-wide setting needs to be changed.

To change this setting, do the following:

1. Open Local Security Policy. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy.
2. Navigate to Local Policies -> Security Options.
3. Set the Network access: Let Everyone permissions apply to anonymous users setting to Enabled.