Re: want admin priviledges over network on XP home

From: Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NOSPAM)_at_(SPAMNOT)hotmail.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:36:58 -0500

Why yes, simple - upgrade to XP Pro. 

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"Gary Roach" <jgroach@NOSPAMcogeco.ca> wrote in message
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> i want to be able to do things remotely like pause network shared printers
> and reboot computers. these computers are running xp home. my
understanding
> of xp home is that simple file sharing cannot be disabled. force-guest is
> always used. is there a way to give guests administrative priviledges so
> that i can do the things i want to do? if not, is there some other way?
> right now i've got a vb script running on the remote machine which looks
for
> a certain file on a network share and pauses the printer or reboots the
> machine if it sees one of these magic "command" files. this works but is a
> huge kludge (even by my standards). any ideas? thanks.
>
> -- 
> Gary Roach
> ADB Services
>
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