cannot conect to office server - Server\guest

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We run a pier to peir system on our small business aand
have a central server running on linux. From memory the
only way that all the computers can interconnect with teh
server is if they are called Administrator when loggin
onto teh network.

I have now moved to XP Pro and ca see all my other
computers sigining in as administrator, however when i
attempt to connect to the server I can not sign in as a
user instead the user field is locked in as SERVER\guest
and our standard password will not work. Has anyone had
this problem.
 
Richard said:
We run a pier to peir system on our small business aand
have a central server running on linux. From memory the
only way that all the computers can interconnect with teh
server is if they are called Administrator when loggin
onto teh network.

I have now moved to XP Pro and ca see all my other
computers sigining in as administrator, however when i
attempt to connect to the server I can not sign in as a
user instead the user field is locked in as SERVER\guest
and our standard password will not work. Has anyone had
this problem.
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When you attempt to connect to an XP machine,
and are met with this dialog:

Connecting to XP-BOX
Username: XP-BOX\Guest ( greyed out )
Password:

This means the machine you are attempting to *connect to* is configured
in a non self-consistent way.

This occours when:

The target machine has 'Simple File Sharing' enabled;
(Which sets the Forceguest registry entry to 1 )
( This FORCES all incoming connections to authenticate as 'Guest' )
( That's why the only username you can specify is Guest )

But has the Guest Account Disabled, or passworded.

Simple File Sharing *requires* the guest account to be enabled.
Someone must have gone in and disabled the Guest Account.
( If it is enabled, but passworded, then just supply the password to
connect! )

Fix: You must either:

1) Re-enable the Guest Account:
Start | Run | lusrmgr.msc;
Users;
Dbl-Click 'Guest';
Clear 'Account is Disabled'.

-or-

2) Disable Simple File Sharing, ( hence setting forceguest = 0 )
and then use conventional user accounts and ACLs and all the other
security stuff.

Reboot the target machine, and try to connect again.
 
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