In Share point when dealing with internet site we should have some situations
where we need to give access to some people who were not in our Active directory
or Databases(In case of Forms Authentication). This simple steps will make share
point with anonymous access enabled
1. For this First you have to go to central administration of your web
share point server
2. Go to Application Management and select Authentication provides under
Application security
3. Select your web application from the
top in which you want to implement Anonymous access
4. Click on the Default Zone marked in red
5. Select the check box for Enable Anonymous Access and click save
6. Then you have to go to the web application where you implemented
anonymous access
7. Go to Site Actions->Site Settings then select Advanced permission
8. From the Settings tab Click on Anonymous Access
9. If you want to enable Anonymous access for entire site you have to
choose the first option.
10. If you like only to enable anonymous access only to certain document
libraries or list you have to go to the second option
11. Click OK
12. Now your site is enabled with Anonymous access with read permission
13. If you go the site you can see a Sign in option for non member users
but still they can browse the site with read permission
14. Suppose you like to give contribute permission to anonymous access to
certain list or document libraries you can do that also.
15. For that you have to go to the particular list or document library
click Settings then List Settings
16. Then click Permission for this list from Permission and Management
27.
28. Then from settings click on Anonymous Access
17. You will get the below screen ,from here you can give more permission
and click save.
18. Now the users will get add permission also in this particular list
with read permission to entire web application