Network Access Issues

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Lee

Hi,

Wonder if anyone can help,

I run a Windows XP Pro machine and have other WinXP Pro
and Win2000 PC's within my workgroup.

When I try to access a PC through Network Neighborhood by
double clicking its icon I get a pop up box asking for
user name and password.

When I click a PC that has Win 2000 installed I can type
in both my username and password and access the PC as
required. However when I do the same to a PC that has
Win XP installed the User name is grayed out
with "PCNAME\GUEST" in and I cannot edit this, and I can
only enter my password.

My question is how can I get the popup box not to be
grayed out so I can enter my correct user name for that
PC?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
 
Lee said:
Hi,

Wonder if anyone can help,

I run a Windows XP Pro machine and have other WinXP Pro
and Win2000 PC's within my workgroup.

When I try to access a PC through Network Neighborhood by
double clicking its icon I get a pop up box asking for
user name and password.

When I click a PC that has Win 2000 installed I can type
in both my username and password and access the PC as
required. However when I do the same to a PC that has
Win XP installed the User name is grayed out
with "PCNAME\GUEST" in and I cannot edit this, and I can
only enter my password.

My question is how can I get the popup box not to be
grayed out so I can enter my correct user name for that
PC?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
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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.
 
Ron,

Your a star mate..

Thank you

-----Original Message-----



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.



--
Best Regards
Ron Lowe
MVP - Windows Networking





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