How to Enable Anonymous Access on a SharePoint Site
Anonymous Access in SharePoint 3.0
With Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 new features such as the Wikis & Blogs, you may want to allow access to these sites to visitors outside of your organization. Allowing Anonymous Access to your Site is the simplest solution.
To allow Anonymous Access, please follow the instructions below.
How to allow Anonymous Access:
Open the site on which you want to enable Anonymous Access
For Example:
On the Site Actions menu top right of the web-page, click Site Settings
NOTE: On a site, for which the Site Actions menu is customized, point to Site Settings and then click the settings that you want to view. On the Site Settings page, in the Users and Permissions column, click Advanced Permissions
On the Permissions page, within the Settings menu, click Anonymous Access
On the Change Anonymous Access Settings page, select the parts of your Web Site that you want to give anonymous access to
NOTE: Once the Anonymous Access has been setup, please allow 2-3 minutes for it to take effect.
Caution: Please note that when you enable Anonymous Access you are allowing anyone on the Internet the ability to view your content. Enabling Anonymous Access can also result in increased bandwidth usage. Try a Link2Exchange Free SharePoint Trial - it comes with unlimited bandwidth and users.
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