HIdden Share

[W]

Greetings,

I have a XP Professional machine that is just in
workgroup mode. I have created a folder

C:\Work files\

It is shared as work$

When I try to connect to it from another XP Pro computer,
it tries to login as guest, and asks me for a password.
I have the guest account disabled, am not running the XP
firewall. How can I connect to that share as a different
user? It has the username (Guest) greyed out.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Greetings,

I have a XP Professional machine that is just in
workgroup mode. I have created a folder

C:\Work files\

It is shared as work$

When I try to connect to it from another XP Pro computer,
it tries to login as guest, and asks me for a password.
I have the guest account disabled, am not running the XP
firewall. How can I connect to that share as a different
user? It has the username (Guest) greyed out.

Run the Network Setup Wizard on the computer that owns the shared
folder. That's sometimes needed to fully enable file sharing.

It makes no difference whether the Guest account is enabled in Control
Panel | User Accounts. That setting only determines whether you can
log in as Guest at the computer's keyboard.

By default, all network access to XP Pro in a workgroup uses the Guest
account. Make sure that the Guest account is enabled for network
access by typing this line at the command prompt:

net user guest /active:

To allow other computers to connect as a different user, disable
simple file sharing on the computer that owns the shared folder.
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