Guest Password required for administrative share.

[Scotty]

Posted earlier but I didn't have the
jargon... "administrative share".

Of my 3 computers, one demands a password to connect to an
administrative share (eg. \\ComputerName\c$). However,
the User Name is defaulted to \\ComputerName\Guest and
can't be changed. None of our passwords grant access.

Identical user credentials exist on all 3 machines, simple
file sharing is on and firewalls are off. As near as I
can tell, the troublesome computer is set up identical to
the two machines that communicate properly. I'm obviously
missing something, however.

 

[Tom]

I bet you have different versions of Windows.
Maybe even one set up in a domain instead of a workgroup.

Try creating another share (C in addition to C$) and
setting permissions as you please.

XP Home is harder to use like this too, as it doesn't
play nice in domains.

 

[Ron Lowe]

Posted earlier but I didn't have the
jargon... "administrative share".

Of my 3 computers, one demands a password to connect to an
administrative share (eg. \\ComputerName\c$). However,
the User Name is defaulted to \\ComputerName\Guest and
can't be changed. None of our passwords grant access.

Identical user credentials exist on all 3 machines, simple
file sharing is on and firewalls are off. As near as I
can tell, the troublesome computer is set up identical to
the two machines that communicate properly. I'm obviously
missing something, however.

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.

 

[Guest]

Same WinXP Pro + SP1.

 

[George]

Sharing is turned off by default. With two networked
computers,I get your response from an XP Pro machine when
I try to select it in Network Places, if sharing has not
be enables - go to the computer you can't access, select
My computer, RIGHT click on the c drive, then select
sharing. When it says "If you understand the risks, etc -
click yes and select the tab to share this folder. then
go to the folder you want to share and select sharing.

 

[Guest]

This is the exact same problem I'm experiencing and have
not been able to find a resolution to it.