Guest account

[Guest]

Is it possible to enable the guest account, but have it invisible.

 

[Malke]

Is it possible to enable the guest account, but have it invisible.

Why don't you tell us what your end goal is? The guest account is not
normally used for when you are feeling hospitable and if we knew what
you are really trying to do (and why) we might be able to suggest a
good solution. It would also help you get focused answers if you tell
us whether you have XP Home or Pro and the service pack level.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Why don't you tell us what your end goal is? The guest account is not
normally used for when you are feeling hospitable and if we knew what
you are really trying to do (and why) we might be able to suggest a
good solution. It would also help you get focused answers if you tell
us whether you have XP Home or Pro and the service pack level.

Malke
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OK... I have XP Pro, SP2.

Since, as I understand it, the guest account must be on to enable sharing
(of a printer in this case), I want it turned on. I also wish to restricr
access to this computer, which is difficult since the guest account cannot be
password protected.

 

[Malke]

Since, as I understand it, the guest account must be on to enable
sharing (of a printer in this case), I want it turned on. I also wish
to restricr access to this computer, which is difficult since the
guest account cannot be password protected.

That isn't true. Five of my XP boxen are XP Pro SP2 and all of them have
the Guest account disabled (as do all the Linux machines). All
computers on the network share files and printers just fine.

To restrict access to the computer, create user accounts and/or groups
and set permissions on shared resources accordingly. Since you have
Pro, you can create very fine-grained permissions. Just make sure
you've turned off Simple Sharing (Folder Options>View). An example
might be if I wanted only the Marketing Dept. to have access to a
directory. I would make a group called "Marketing" and put the
marketing users in that group (carefully not forgetting to add myself
and Administrator). Then I could set permissions on the directory to
only allow the Marketing group access.

If you need more help with that, give us an example of the restrictions
you'd like to set.

Malke

 

[Jon Phipps]

I use xp pro on my laptop and 2k on my desktop, and the guest account is
disabled on both of them

 

[Guest]

This is for anyone who wants to know........ to put a password on the guest
account click on start, go to run, and type in 'command' (witout the dash
things) then in command type in 'net user guest password' (again without the
dashy things and it might be users)