Guest John In Palmer Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Good morning, I recently ran into an issue on a peer to peer network that would not let me connect to other machines on the same workgroup. All machines could see each other just fine, however; when attempting to connect to another machine, it would display the appropriate log in screen, but with the Guest profile account selected and grayed out (no other option to put in a seperate profile was available) and only the password field was available. Currently, I have the Guest accounts on all of these machines disabled for security reasons. These are all Windows XP Professional machines, newer Dell hardware, I have disabled all Firewall software (Norton Internet Security and Windows Firewall) because it sits behind a configurable Linksys router. As for the router, there are no obvious settings that seem to prohibit functionality. I am trying to simply share a folder on one machine with a couple of other machines. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
Guest Doug Knox - [MS-MVP] Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: Guest Access only on LAN peer to peer In Windows Explorer, go to Tools, Folder Options, View. Scroll down and uncheck Use simple file sharing on the machines you want to access shared folders. Note: You will need to know a valid username/password that has access to the files/folders you want to access remotely. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "John In Palmer" <JohnInPalmer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AEE4D1BF-BD6B-456D-861F-32B818A3E0EE@microsoft.com... > Good morning, > I recently ran into an issue on a peer to peer network that would not let > me > connect to other machines on the same workgroup. All machines could see > each > other just fine, however; when attempting to connect to another machine, > it > would display the appropriate log in screen, but with the Guest profile > account selected and grayed out (no other option to put in a seperate > profile > was available) and only the password field was available. Currently, I > have > the Guest accounts on all of these machines disabled for security reasons. > These are all Windows XP Professional machines, newer Dell hardware, I > have > disabled all Firewall software (Norton Internet Security and Windows > Firewall) because it sits behind a configurable Linksys router. As for the > router, there are no obvious settings that seem to prohibit functionality. > > I am trying to simply share a folder on one machine with a couple of other > machines. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
Guest John In Palmer Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: Guest Access only on LAN peer to peer Thank you Doug - I should have remembered that! Doh!!!! "Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote: > In Windows Explorer, go to Tools, Folder Options, View. Scroll down and > uncheck Use simple file sharing on the machines you want to access shared > folders. Note: You will need to know a valid username/password that has > access to the files/folders you want to access remotely. > > -- > Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart > Display\Security > Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes > http://www.dougknox.com > -------------------------------- > Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro > http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm > -------------------------------- > Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. > > "John In Palmer" <JohnInPalmer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:AEE4D1BF-BD6B-456D-861F-32B818A3E0EE@microsoft.com... > > Good morning, > > I recently ran into an issue on a peer to peer network that would not let > > me > > connect to other machines on the same workgroup. All machines could see > > each > > other just fine, however; when attempting to connect to another machine, > > it > > would display the appropriate log in screen, but with the Guest profile > > account selected and grayed out (no other option to put in a seperate > > profile > > was available) and only the password field was available. Currently, I > > have > > the Guest accounts on all of these machines disabled for security reasons. > > These are all Windows XP Professional machines, newer Dell hardware, I > > have > > disabled all Firewall software (Norton Internet Security and Windows > > Firewall) because it sits behind a configurable Linksys router. As for the > > router, there are no obvious settings that seem to prohibit functionality. > > > > I am trying to simply share a folder on one machine with a couple of other > > machines. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance. >
Guest Doug Knox - [MS-MVP] Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: Guest Access only on LAN peer to peer You're welcome :-) -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "John In Palmer" <JohnInPalmer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F1637C44-8F28-47EA-A042-464218A6F21C@microsoft.com... > Thank you Doug - I should have remembered that! Doh!!!! > > "Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote: > >> In Windows Explorer, go to Tools, Folder Options, View. Scroll down and >> uncheck Use simple file sharing on the machines you want to access shared >> folders. Note: You will need to know a valid username/password that has >> access to the files/folders you want to access remotely. >> >> -- >> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart >> Display\Security >> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes >> http://www.dougknox.com >> -------------------------------- >> Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro >> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm >> -------------------------------- >> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. >> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. >> >> "John In Palmer" <JohnInPalmer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in >> message >> news:AEE4D1BF-BD6B-456D-861F-32B818A3E0EE@microsoft.com... >> > Good morning, >> > I recently ran into an issue on a peer to peer network that would not >> > let >> > me >> > connect to other machines on the same workgroup. All machines could see >> > each >> > other just fine, however; when attempting to connect to another >> > machine, >> > it >> > would display the appropriate log in screen, but with the Guest profile >> > account selected and grayed out (no other option to put in a seperate >> > profile >> > was available) and only the password field was available. Currently, I >> > have >> > the Guest accounts on all of these machines disabled for security >> > reasons. >> > These are all Windows XP Professional machines, newer Dell hardware, I >> > have >> > disabled all Firewall software (Norton Internet Security and Windows >> > Firewall) because it sits behind a configurable Linksys router. As for >> > the >> > router, there are no obvious settings that seem to prohibit >> > functionality. >> > >> > I am trying to simply share a folder on one machine with a couple of >> > other >> > machines. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance. >>
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