Administrator in normal boot up

[Guest]

I have Windows XP Home. I have two users and guest which is turned off. I
need to have access on this computer from my other computer on my home
network. The only way I can get to set permissions is to Safe Boot with
network support and log in as administrator. Even with network support, I
can't see the other computer to set permissions. Is there a way to log in as
administrator in normal boot up.
Thanks!!

 

[Tom Porterfield]

I have Windows XP Home. I have two users and guest which is turned off. I
need to have access on this computer from my other computer on my home
network. The only way I can get to set permissions is to Safe Boot with
network support and log in as administrator. Even with network support, I
can't see the other computer to set permissions. Is there a way to log in
as administrator in normal boot up.

In XP Home, you can only log on with the Administrator account in Safe Mode.
You can create another account and put it in the Administrator's group but
that won't actually get you what you need as the only way to access the
advanced security settings in XP Home is Safe Mode.

 

[peter]

you need one of you users to have admin.privileges.
You run the Network Setup wizard on both machines
you need to use the same workgroup name
you need to right click drives on each computer to turn on share&security
for those drives you wish to share
http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp

peter

 

[Nepatsfan]

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I have Windows XP Home. I have two users and guest which is
turned
off. I need to have access on this computer from my other
computer on
my home network. The only way I can get to set permissions is
to Safe
Boot with network support and log in as administrator. Even
with
network support, I can't see the other computer to set
permissions.
Is there a way to log in as administrator in normal boot up.
Thanks!!

First off, you don't set access permissions for computers, you
set them for users or groups.

Second, Windows XP Home uses Simple File Sharing by default and
it cannot be disabled. While you can boot into Safe Mode and
gain access to the Sharing and Security tabs, you won't be able
to fine tune network access the way you can in XP Pro with
Simple File Sharing disabled. That's because any user on the
other computer who wants to access shared resources on a
Windows XP Home system will be authenticated using the
credentials of the Guest account. Having the Guest account
turned off on the XP Home system only means that you can't sit
down at that computer and log on with the Guest account. For
file sharing purposes, the Guest account is "active". Open a
command prompt window, Start -> Run -> cmd.exe, and enter this
command;

net user guest

Note the entry next to Account Active, it should be Yes.

What that means is that if you're attempting to restrict access
in Safe Mode, you'll have to change the permissions assigned to
the Guest account. It's far easier to accept the limitations
built into XP Home Edition and simply configure file sharing in
Normal Mode.

If you have any questions, post back with details on exactly
what you're trying to accomplish.

Good luck

Nepatsfan