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Sulasno
how do I put in restrictions to the guest account?
allowing to surf the Net but unable to download anything
allowing to surf the Net but unable to download anything
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Malke
Sulasno said:how do I put in restrictions to the guest account?
allowing to surf the Net but unable to download anything
Do not use the Guest account you see in the User Accounts applet in
Control Panel. It is not there for when you are feeling hospitable. It
allows someone without a user account on the local system to log on and
do some work. It runs with elevated privileges which is why it is a
security hole and normally disabled. It will not do what you want.
Create a new user account and call it something like "Visitor". Make it
a Limited account. If you have XP Home, you don't have the built-in
ability to create fine-grained limitations. Use either MVP Doug Knox's
Security Console or the MS Shared Computer Toolkit to set the
restrictions the way you want.
http://www.dougknox.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx
If you have Pro, you can set group policies to do this.
Start>Run>gpedit.msc. Be very careful using the Group Policy editor; it
is completely possible to lock yourself out. Questions about group
policy should be posted here:
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy
Malke
S
Sulasno
thank you
Malke said:Do not use the Guest account you see in the User Accounts applet in
Control Panel. It is not there for when you are feeling hospitable. It
allows someone without a user account on the local system to log on and do
some work. It runs with elevated privileges which is why it is a security
hole and normally disabled. It will not do what you want.
Create a new user account and call it something like "Visitor". Make it a
Limited account. If you have XP Home, you don't have the built-in ability
to create fine-grained limitations. Use either MVP Doug Knox's Security
Console or the MS Shared Computer Toolkit to set the restrictions the way
you want.
http://www.dougknox.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx
If you have Pro, you can set group policies to do this.
Start>Run>gpedit.msc. Be very careful using the Group Policy editor; it is
completely possible to lock yourself out. Questions about group policy
should be posted here:
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy
Malke
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