Re: Password required to access peer computer

From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: 4 Dec 2004 16:31:16 -0600

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 13:51:17 -0700, "Steve Winograd [MVP]" <winograd@pobox.com>
wrote:

<SNIP>

>Chuck,
>
>That's a great networking document from Microsoft -- one of the few
>that I've seen that gets everything right. Thanks for pointing it out.
>I've put a link to it on my web site.
>
>I think that you and I agree about how things work. I didn't mean to
>say that the Guest account isn't used at all in XP Pro with simple
>file sharing disabled. Let me rephrase my last sentence from above:
>
>If you've explicitly disabled simple file sharing on the XP
>Professional computer, the Guest account isn't used to validate all
>network access. The actual credentials of the user who requests
>access are used.
>
>Now, do we agree?

We're in agreement.

I'm a little unsure what help the OP really needs though - he's only posted
twice and Malke sounds a bit frustrated. ;-) 

-- 
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

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