Cheryl said:
I'm trying to connect to another PC for file sharing.
Both are XP PCs. It requires me to logon as guest (which
is disabled). I tried to get around it by mapping a drive
using different user, but it still wants that guest
password!
How do I stop this behavior?
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.
