How to Enable Dial-Up in Guest Account?

From: Mike Bright MSP (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 05:13:41 -0700

Wong,

The Guest account cannot make a dial up connection by
design. The security within XP won't allow this
operation. The only was the Guest can use a Dialup is if
it's established by another non-guest user and then using
Fast User Switching. Again this needs a slight tweak to
work.

Hope this helps

Mike Bright MCP, MSP

e:mike.bright@brightweb.co.uk

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