Re: User Names for Login to XP

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 12/28/02 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:19:56 -0700

You will have to explain your 1. if I am to understand it.

On your 2. the Guest account is listed in the security policy
called Deny local logon. In Pro you can remove this and Guest
can then login. I doubt that you can do the same in Home.
However, this is senseless. Guest, when it does log in locally
is a member of the Users group (unless you make a few changes
to the default settings, and, if you do make those changes then
the Guest login fails). As such there is no real advantage to
using the Guest account for local login rather than just defining
a limited Users group member account. 

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Roger Abell
MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA,  MCSE both
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Meyer" <mhk22@cornell.edu> wrote in message
news:01ce01c2ae04$d04a07d0$d7f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA14...
> 1. New to XP and have set up system to require users to
> use classic logon screen. Yet when I try to create new
> user account, there is no place to input a user name.
> Hence no one can log on except me.
>
> 2. At classic logon screen, I tried to log on as Guest
> and it told me "Can't logon interactively". What does
> this mean and what can I do about it. Guest is working
> for home network but not from classic logon screen.
>
> Thanks,
> Meyer

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