Our school IT department has 7 servers with various functions. Our printing server is running Server 2003 x32. Most staff and faculty computers are on the domain, but a small handful prefer to use personal computers and are running XP home. That is okay with us. However we need to be able to authenticate them to the print server individually (by computer name, MAC address, etc.) I am hesitant to allow unauthenticated access (guest account) because this will open the server to access by students and their laptops, which we do not want. Any suggestions?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781629(WS.10).aspx I found this article on enabling guest access. Could there be something in this process to allow me to authenticate a specific computer? Is this process the right way to enable guest access? Will enabling routing affect the domain controller?

I have though about this and have decided that it would be simpler to enable guest access to the print server. The print server is a relatively low risk server, so the risk would be minimal. I know how to to this on a desktop computer by going to local security policy and removing guest from deny access to this computer from the network and add guest to access this computer from the network. However on the server, I still get a credential prompt when trying to get access from non-domain computers. I found this article on tech net. Is this the correct procedure for allow guest access to shared resources.

Hello Connor401, It looks like the steps in the article is for remote access only. If you want to get access from non-domain computers without getting a credential prompt, we suggest creating a specific account and password on the server to match. When the student logs on to his computer with this account, he can access to the print server without getting a credential prompt anymore. Brent Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ”

I am still not following you. I want any computer, domain or not to have complete access to the shared resources of that server. I do not want to have to do something for each individual user.