Guest Account can't connect to internet?

From: valeria (marmieduke@hotmail.com)
Date: 08/17/02 

From: "valeria" <marmieduke@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 10:01:38 -0700

i had a similar problem...mine was solved when i allowed
the password to be shared by all users...the option is in
the window displayed at connection time...check it out.
(ya know, where it says connect etc) good luck!!

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm trying to get my computer's Guest Account to use my
>modem in Win XP Home, on a stand alone computer. I want
>the Guest Account to be used by friends, instead of my
own
>user account, so they can get on the internet when I'm
not
>arround.
>
>But the New Connection Wizard won't set up a connection
>for the Guest Account to use, even though the Wizard did
>successfully set up connections for all other User and
>Administrator accounts. The Guest Account does show the
>proper Dial Up item in Network Connections, the same one
>the Wzard created in all other User accounts. But, in
the
>Guest Account's Control Panel - Internet Options -
>Connections tab, there is no connection showing at all
in
>the box "Dial-up and Virtual private network settings".
>If I click the Add button, trying to set up a new
>connection, I get an error message - "Cannot load the
>Remote Access Connection Manager service. Error 5:
Access
>is denied". I don't understand why all the other
accounts
>were set up sucessfully, but not the Guest Account?
>
>This doesn't seem to be by design that you can't use a
>modem to get on the internet through the Guest Account,
>since the Help for Win XP says the following: "The
guest
>account is intended for use by someone who has no user
>account on the computer. There is no password for the
>guest account, so the user can log on quickly to check e-
>mail or browse the Internet." And that's exactly what
I'd
>like it to do.
>
>Can someone please help me?
>.
>

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