Re: Help with Guest account

Steve, yes I am absolutely sure I am using an administrator account. I did
use the command prompt to make sure there had not been an error, but I have
been using this account a long time and am sure what it is. I wrote in the
post below this one as well in answer to the fellow having a problem with the
internet access with the guest account. I need to let you know that so we
don't go back and forth now between these two posts. My fiance had been using
dialup, I configured a wireless network with a Linksys Router (yes, I know
the difference between dialup and a router a hub a hub w/swith, a router
w/switch is the norm) then changed to a Belkin Router about six months ago
and it has been functioning very well. I configured WPA, changed the SSID,
configured it all at the browser setup page located at 192.168.2.1 which is
the address for the Belkin Routers. I also put in a good password. Now, the
guest account I enabled on my fiance's comptuer is up and running without any
problem except for no internet connection. There is not any icon down in the
notification area, I can't access the network connections via the guest
account to see what is up with this and clicking IE result is an "page can
not be displayed" message. My guest account keeps up with the Access Denied.
I checked the event viewer and there were several entries sugesting the
registry would not let my Admin account lose for some reason. I tried
accessing the link in help without any luck, have looked this up in my
Windows XP Inside Out as well as other books without any success as well.
There should not be any reason for either the access denied nor the lack of
internet connectivity problems yet there you have it. When I switch back to
my admin account everything works fine there. Thanks, Seree
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seree


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

Are you sure you are using an administrator account and did you verify it
with the command I recommended? You can also run the command net user
username using the actual username for your account to see if it shows that
it is a member of the administrators group under local group memberships.
Below is the output you should see. Also why do you need to enable the guest
account?? You can also create other user accounts for other user that you
want to be able to logon to your computer.

Steve


D:\WINDOWS\system32>net user steve
User name Steve
Full Name
Comment
User's comment
Country code 000 (System Default)
Account active Yes
Account expires Never

Password last set 7/26/2006 11:16 AM
Password expires Never
Password changeable 7/26/2006 11:16 AM
Password required Yes
User may change password Yes

Workstations allowed All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon 8/23/2006 3:42 PM

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Network Configuration
*Users
Global Group memberships *None
The command completed successfully.


D:\WINDOWS\system32>

"seree" <seree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I enabled the Guest account via my Administrators Account. I click on the
Guest Account to activate it and I get these problems. I activated the
Guest
Account on my other computer without any of these problems. Thanks for
responding.
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seree


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

The first thing to check is that you are logged on as an account that is
in
the local administrators group because if you are not that would explain
the
problems. You can use the command net localgroup administrators to see
members of the administrators group. If you are unsure of how to open a
command window then enter cmd.exe in the run box and hit OK.

Steve


"seree" <seree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, I tried starting my guest account but it is giving me an "access
denied"
message. I am using an administrative account, have Windows XP Media
Edition
2005, 4 gigs of RAM, an Intel Pentium D processor at 800Mhz. It is also
trying to install a Corel photo program but the access denied error is
interferring with that process. I am out of ideas on what to do here.
It
also
won't load my iinternet connection. Help please, thanks to all who
respond.
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seree






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