Evan said:
I am trying to disable the guest account completely from
my network at home. My setup:
2 computers on the "WORKGROUP" workgroup.
one computer's name is "chimp"
the other's is "chimp2"
from chimp2, i type \\chimp\g$ to get into the g-drive
from chimp.
Whenever i do that, it asks for the Guest account login.
The funny thing is, I disabled guest account in the
computer management, and turned off guest account in the
user accounts portion of control panels.
My plan is to make it so when i go \\chimp\g$ it will let
me log in as an administrator on "chimp", anyone know how
to do that?
Start -> Help and Support
search for:
simple file sharing
There should be one there about "Display the Security tab" -> click on it.
It will tell you how to disable this.
Why, you might ask? Well this web page:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304040
Explains Simple File Sharing fairly well. Particularly this part:
"Remote users always authenticate as the Guest account"
So.. This is what you DON'T want. Look at this article for a little more
info as well:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302927
The basic steps to disable Simple File Sharing are:
1. Click Start then click on My Computer.
2. At the top of the My Computer window click on Tools then click on Folder
Options.
3. In the Folder Options window click on the View tab.
4. Under Advanced Settings scroll down to the bottom and the last option
will be "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)". Uncheck this option.
5. Click Ok to apply settings and close this window.
6. The next time you check the properties of a folder you will see a
Security tab and NTFS permissions if you are running a NTFS file system.
Of course, I think that is only valid for XP Professional.
Unfortunately, XP Home Edition doesn't allow you to disable Simple File
Sharing and is unable to join a domain, so the best you can hope for is to
make sure you set your shared folders to be read only, hide the file shares
by using a $ sign after the folder name, or if your using the NTFS file
system, use the 'Make Private" option in the folder properties.
I also found this, in case you do have XP Home:
http://www.uksecurityfocus.com/husdg/windowsxp/cleanbindings.htm
This was very interesting (for the XP Home users) as it claims to enable the
security tab (disable simple file sharing) in XP Home! --
http://tinyurl.com/t3nu
As it was commented that works on another thread - I leave it to you! (The
x86 (Intel) Version - in case you wonder..)
BTW - I noticed you gave your email (it looks real enough) - if so, expect
some spam increase in your inbox. Some may look like they are from
Microsoft, 99% of them will not be.. Never install patches unless you
downloaded them from a reliable source.
Good luck!
i