Re: access control on new laptop

I have deleted my norton, just to see what would happen. I have turned off
windows firewall. Still, I get a guest account default login window, with
neither the ability to change the login name, nor the knowledge of what
password to use. Additionally, I don't even have the guest login account
turned on in the laptop.

Any other thoughts? I am dying here for ideas that will lead me down some
path, but I've tried all options given so far with no results.
--
Boris


"Frank" wrote:

I did not pay attention, therefore I did not see the blurb about
Norton. I use a hardware firewall so that leaves me out.
You are blocked somewhere with a permission.

BorisS wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I thought I was going into that fourth/fifth
screen oblivion where nothing gets read.

I just tried at home, with the same result as in the office.
Namely, laptop is on, guest is off, it can see the home desktop and
log in. But then the home desktop (same username, same workgroup)
can find the laptop with a search under Run, but the login gives a
grayed username of Guest, and the password takes neither a blank,
or what my admin password is on the named user role that I am
trying to access.

Other thoughts? Thanks again.

BorisS wrote:
I had a setup previously where my desktop could access my laptop,
and see a set of folders that I'd allowed for sharing. I just
got a new laptop, and seem to not be able to find the trick for
what I had done with the old one, which allowed it to be
accessed. I have turned my Norton firewall networking setting to
allow for the computer IP of my desktop to get in, and when I see
the workgroup computers, I see the laptop. Only when I try to
get into the link, I get a default login dialogue for the laptop
access which uses Guest as the account.

I don't know what the guest password is, bc on the laptop end, I
don't even know how to set a guest password. Second, I used to
log in (from the desktop to laptop) as the admin role which I use
on the laptop. It grays out the username on the login dialogue,
so I cannot even choose the admin role. And the most ironic
thing is that when I turn OFF the guest role on the laptop is
when I can get this dialogue on the desktop. When I turn ON the
guest access on the laptop, the desktop attempt at logging in
doesn't even give me a dialogue, but rather just says that this
type of logon is not allowed by the remote computer. So I'm
totally confused.

Thanks for any help.

Turn off guest account
Both computers =
Same workgroup + same username + same password (not a blank)
+ shared folders (or whatever shared)




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