Have 4 WinXP PCs in a workgroup. Which means local SAM on each PC to
authenticate users. When 1 XP PC accesses a Share on another XP PC, why are
they unable to specify the username when connecting? The username/password
dialog prompt has an active field to fill in the password but the field to
fill in the username is greyed out (can't edit it). What's happening?
When you access Windows XP Home Edition over the network, all users on
other computers validate using the Guest account, and the username
field on the accessing computer is greyed out. These commands on XP
Home Edition control networked access to it using the Guest account:
net user guest /active:yes ;allow
net user guest /active:no ;deny
If the Guest account has a network password, the user on the other
computer must enter that password at the prompt. To create or remove
a network password for the Guest account, use this command:
control userpasswords2.
In a workgroup, the default behavior for XP Professional is the same
as XP Home Edition. However, Pro can disable simple file sharing,
which lets users on other computers validate as themselves.
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