Re: Guest Account can't connect to internet?

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 08/17/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:34:55 -0700

Except that Guests can't initiate or terminate Internet connections.
Microsoft must have been thinking (once again) solely of domain/LAN
environments. They completely forgot about home dial-up users when
configuring Guest privileges. 

--
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
Bob <rheineck@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

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