Guest access permits users to access some or all of the Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) Web pages without providing authentication credentials. The system will not grant default guest users any rights greater than those a subscriber has, regardless of what kind of rights group is actually responsible for providing the account with rights. A minimum level of subscriber rights is required before any information about an object will be disclosed.

If the guest account is enabled, users are granted the rights they have explicitly been assigned plus all the rights that are assigned to the guest user. Which pages the anonymous user is allowed to access depends on the permissions of the subscriber group or groups to which the administrator assigns the guest account. The guest account must be added to the subscriber rights group using the MCMS Site Manager. For more information, see Creating Rights Groups.

To enable guest access

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Content Management Server 2002, and then click Server Configuration Application.
2. In the MCMS Configuration Application dialog box, click the Security tab, and then click Configure.
3. In the MCMS Configuration Application - Security Configuration dialog box, in the Guest Visitors section, do the following:

   Use this	To do this
   Allow Guests On Site	From the drop-down list, select Yes or No.
   Guest Login Account	Type the name of the account to use as the guest account in the form, domain\username. Or click Browse to find this account.

4. In the MCMS Configuration Application - Security Configuration dialog box, click OK.
5. In the MCMS Configuration Application dialog box, click Close Application.