Re: Problem: No Network Connections under Guest Account

When you use a internet router you do not need to configure a dial up
connection on your computer for access to the internet. All the information
needed to access your ISP is entered into the configuration on the router
and then your computer simply uses the router for it's default gateway which
usually is done by configuring the router to be DHCP server and your
computer to be DHCP client which means that tcp/ip configuration will be
done automatically by the internet router. That should all be explained in
the documentation for your internet router. Don't confuse an internet router
with a modem however. The internet router almost always has a built in
switch that will have four or more LAN ports on it and it is configured by
using your web browser entering it's IP address in the address bar which
usually is 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 and again that will be in it's
documentation.

Steve


"seree" <seree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am also having this problem with my Guest Account. I have a Belkin Router
and never was given any selection between only using for one account or
other
accounts. I am a bit disgusted this is not even in the Windows XP Inside
Out
book by Ed Bott and others. Could use some advice other than completely
removing my entire network and then re-establishing it. Anybody with
further
ideas on this issue? Thank goodness somebody other than myself has this
problem right now, though I am sorry for it, but it is nice to not be all
alone on this one. Thanks all.
--
seree


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

When you create a network connection it asks you if you want to make it
available to everyone or just your account so my guess is that you
selected
your account only. Offhand I don't know how to fix that other then
deleting
the network connection and creating again selecting the option to make it
available for all users. Having said that I would get a very affordable
internet router [Linksys, D-Link, Netgear, etc] to connect to your DSL
modem. That would make your internet connection seamless and also provide
firewall protection for your network. At least for blocking traffic that
is
not in response to traffic initiated by your computer known or unknown to
you. It is too easy for a software/host firewall to become disabled or
misconfigured which can cause BIG headaches.

Steve


"Mark D." <MarkD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am running Windows XP Service Pack 2 and have two user accounts...
mine
(administrator) and guest (enabled).

Problem I'm experiencing is that the guest account does not show any of
the
network connections (comes up as "empty") and, as a result, guests must
use
my admin account on my pc in order to access the internet.

I'm using DSL without a problem with my administrator account. Would
like
to
be able to add this nextwork connection (DSL) to my guest account.

Again, when I log onto the Guest account and look under Network
Connections
(Start>Settings>Network Connections) the sub-menu comes up as empty.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Mark





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