I have deleted my norton, just to see what would happen. I have turned off
windows firewall. Still, I get a guest account default login window, with
neither the ability to change the login name, nor the knowledge of what
password to use. Additionally, I don't even have the guest login account
turned on in the laptop.
Any other thoughts? I am dying here for ideas that will lead me down some
path, but I've tried all options given so far with no results.
--
Boris
"Frank" wrote:
> I did not pay attention, therefore I did not see the blurb about
> Norton. I use a hardware firewall so that leaves me out.
> You are blocked somewhere with a permission.
>
> BorisS wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. I thought I was going into that fourth/fifth
> > screen oblivion where nothing gets read.
> >
> > I just tried at home, with the same result as in the office.
> > Namely, laptop is on, guest is off, it can see the home desktop and
> > log in. But then the home desktop (same username, same workgroup)
> > can find the laptop with a search under Run, but the login gives a
> > grayed username of Guest, and the password takes neither a blank,
> > or what my admin password is on the named user role that I am
> > trying to access.
> >
> > Other thoughts? Thanks again.
> >
> >> BorisS wrote:
> >>> I had a setup previously where my desktop could access my laptop,
> >>> and see a set of folders that I'd allowed for sharing. I just
> >>> got a new laptop, and seem to not be able to find the trick for
> >>> what I had done with the old one, which allowed it to be
> >>> accessed. I have turned my Norton firewall networking setting to
> >>> allow for the computer IP of my desktop to get in, and when I see
> >>> the workgroup computers, I see the laptop. Only when I try to
> >>> get into the link, I get a default login dialogue for the laptop
> >>> access which uses Guest as the account.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know what the guest password is, bc on the laptop end, I
> >>> don't even know how to set a guest password. Second, I used to
> >>> log in (from the desktop to laptop) as the admin role which I use
> >>> on the laptop. It grays out the username on the login dialogue,
> >>> so I cannot even choose the admin role. And the most ironic
> >>> thing is that when I turn OFF the guest role on the laptop is
> >>> when I can get this dialogue on the desktop. When I turn ON the
> >>> guest access on the laptop, the desktop attempt at logging in
> >>> doesn't even give me a dialogue, but rather just says that this
> >>> type of logon is not allowed by the remote computer. So I'm
> >>> totally confused.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any help.
> >>
> >> Turn off guest account
> >> Both computers =
> >> Same workgroup + same username + same password (not a blank)
> >> + shared folders (or whatever shared)
>
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