Accessing shares as non-Guest (XP Pro)

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Hi,

I'm experiencing a strange problem on one of my machines. I have several
Windows XP Professional machines in a Workgroup each sharing a number of
directories.

One newly installed machine keeps forcing me to access shares as Guest,
even though ForceGuest is disabled and "Network access: Sharing and
security model for local accounts" is set to Classic.

On the other machines this works fine, but not on this machine, for some
reason. I've tried some things (converted a remaining FAT32 partition to
NTFS, choosing passwords for all local users, disabled and re-enabling the
required settings), nothing helps.

Any ideas? I can't think of anything else I need to change...


Thanks in advance,
 
SubSpace said:
I'm experiencing a strange problem on one of my machines. I have several
Windows XP Professional machines in a Workgroup each sharing a number of
directories.

One newly installed machine keeps forcing me to access shares as Guest,
even though ForceGuest is disabled and "Network access: Sharing and
security model for local accounts" is set to Classic.

On the other machines this works fine, but not on this machine, for some
reason. I've tried some things (converted a remaining FAT32 partition to
NTFS, choosing passwords for all local users, disabled and re-enabling the
required settings), nothing helps.
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Sorry if this has already been clear to you, but let me check
the simple things first. The first thing I would do is compare
the accounts, particularly the user names. A user who wants to
access the computer has to have an account on the target
computer with his username and password. Alternatively he can
access a share with different credentials, but this has to be
done explicitly.

Hans-Georg
 
Sorry if this has already been clear to you, but let me check
the simple things first. The first thing I would do is compare
the accounts, particularly the user names. A user who wants to
access the computer has to have an account on the target
computer with his username and password. Alternatively he can
access a share with different credentials, but this has to be
done explicitly.
Click to expand...

I have an account with the same name and password on the other machine, so
that isn't it. However, the username field that pops up is greyed out and
set to 'Guest'.
 
SubSpace said:
I have an account with the same name and password on the other machine, so
that isn't it. However, the username field that pops up is greyed out and
set to 'Guest'.
Click to expand...

Currently no further idea. Please chime in, anyone, with
possible explanations and remedies.

Hans-Georg
 
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