I've tried to find this out on my own but am hitting a couple of dead ends. I'm excited for the opportunity to use a UNC path to a SQL Server FileTable that I've set up with non-transacted access set to Full. Everything works great on the local SQL Server. However, from a second server that is not part of the domain (and for which it would obviously have zero permissions), I would like to access that share. Is there such a thing as an anonymous access to a FileTable's UNC share such that it doesn't prompt for a user login? Note that providing the user credentials of a valid Windows (not SQL user) to the login prompt allows me to do everything I need to do with that share.
I thought that perhaps the share would show up in the usual place on a Windows Server 2012 box but it does not. The only evidence of the shares existence is when I type "net share" at the command prompt on the local server. I tried tinkering with the Security settings on the Filestream's root folder to allow anonymous and everyone read-only access but that doesnt get me past the Windows login dialog prompt when trying to access that share from the second server.
Is this not possible with a non-domain server? Would I just need to look at using a managed service domain account to set this all up and be forced to join that second server to the domain?
Thanks for your insight.
