In the meantime, if I enable the Guest account with no password, and enable access of a shared folder by Guest, will all 12 computers be able to map that folder and access it concurrently?
they would also be (if you don't want to use the guest account, which may be a security issue), if you create one user account for all users, which are not on the same server and grant him the permissions.
Then, if the normal user is logged on on his client (assuming he has an account on
server1 only and needs to access the common share on
server2, to which an user account with the name
TeamUser has been granted access), click
Start/Run and enter control keymgr.dll.
Here you can add a connection to server2 with the credentials
server2\TeamUser and his password, which allows you to map and access the common shared folder within the users profile. (This works only on the Pro versions of Windows XP and Vista, not on the home editions.) On the later one you could create a batch containing the line
net use X: \\server2\common /user:server2\TeamUser password(replace the share name common with the share you wish to map for the team members and password with either the real password for that TeamUser account or the asterisk *, which would ask each time for typing that password) and put this batch file into the Startup folder in the users Start Menu.
This especially under the experience, which some users had after enabling the guest account and the clients after that connecting as guest with limited permissions to the home shares.
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf
