Re: Lockout on LAN with XP

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From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:11:24 -0400

Try:

1. On the Win2k machine, enable the Guest account - Right click My Computer
and select Manage - go to Local Users and Groups.

2. Go to Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy. Expand Local Policies
and click on User Rights Assignment. Double click on Access this computer
from the network, and add the Guest account.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Dave" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:499b01c48005$c3e91240$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I had two computers networked, one with 98 and the other
> with XP Home Edition. They were working fine. I
> upgrdaded the 98 computer to Win 2000. After a struggle I
> got the network functioning. The next time I turned the
> computers on the network was not working. I've been
> struggling with it for 2 days with no result. I can ping
> both computers OK. I can access the shared drives on the
> XP computer from the 2000 computer. I can see the 2000
> computer from the XP machine, but none of the shared
> drives. On the XP machine, when I click on the 2000
> computer name in "My Network Places" I get a "log in"
> window (with some keys at the top) requesting a log in
> name and a password. I don't know how this window came to
> be, and I certainly don't know how to get rid of it. I
> believe it is the reason I can't access the shared drives
> on the 2000 computer. There are two printers connected to
> the 2000 computer that I'm also being denied access to.
>
> Any help would be sincerly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

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