Re: My Guest Account cannot access Workgroups - help.

From: Peter (chienp01@yahoo.com)
Date: 08/14/02 

From: "Peter" <chienp01@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:37:36 -0700

All the other computers on the local network are running
Windows 95 and 98. With XP Pro preinstalled on my own
machine, and using my Administrator account, I am able to
access those computers and other workgroups under My
Network Places. I would like to enable this feature for
the standard Guest Account without making the Guest
Account an administrator. Is there a simple way to do
this on my own XP machine, without having to set up
accounts on all the other machines simply for XP's
Guest? The XP preinstalled defaulted to Simple File
Sharing, and this didn't work either. For some reason,
some restriction was set to prevent the Guest Account
from even browsing at workgroups under My Network Places.

--Peter

>-----Original Message-----
>The Guest account is unauthenticated. It would be better
to create a
>limited account of the same name on your local computers
and grant
>access to Users on each machine. I assume this is what
you did with
>Administrator?
>
>If you switch to simple file sharing, all network access
is via Guest,
>so perhaps this is what you want. Make sure you are
behind a firewall or
>NAT router to protect yourself from Internet access.
>
>--
>Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
>(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
>
>Peter <chienp01@yahoo.com> posted the following:
>
>> I'm using Windows XP Professional. Under My Network
>> Places, I can access the various computers in my local
>> network under the administrator account. But when I
>> switch to the Guest Account, access is denied. Can
>> someone give me how-to instructions to grant this same
>> access to the Guest Account? Thanks.
>
>.
>

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