Re: User Logon Required on some Networked machines

From: Robert L [MS-MVP] (noreply_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:05:47 -0600

you may want to enable the guest account on the remote computer. 

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"S Carter" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We have 8 Computers running XP Pro on a peer to peer
> network.
> They all show up in the workgroup.
> All users are logged on as limited users.
> All are accessable over the network.
> From a user account on my laptop that does not exist on
> the other machines I can see all the shared folders just
> fine on 3 machines. The other machines require me to login
> with a user name and password from my laptop before I can
> access anything. I can do that successfully, but I need to
> be able to access the shared folders with out a logon
> being required.
> I added the user name to the computer that was requiring
> the logon and now the message comes up when trying to
> access that computer to contact system administrator and
> it no longer gives the option to logon.
> Thanks

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