I'm having a debate with someone over whether a 2003 server by default (OOB)forces someone to authenticate(whether to a DC or to the server itself if standalone) before allowing access to files.
He seems to think that the default is that no authentication is required and consequently anyone could rock up and connect a laptop to a network with that server on it and get access to files on it-as the EVERYONE group is given read permissions to new folders etc. I say he is wrong but am looking hard to find something to back me up. I understand that the guest account could access files as it is part of the EVERYONE group but it's disabled by default-but still, there is an authentication process for guest to login
