Re: guest account password

In article <B00E2D75-BB66-4CB9-8049-4745BE627064@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"flint" <flint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have two laptop PCs connected trough a router. The problem is that
>everytime that I try to access one of the PCs, from the other one, a window,
>asking me the guest account password, appears... and the guest account is
>disabled! I was able to ping the two machines so I'm assuming that they are
>correctly connected. I've disabled the firewall, but didn't work either. What
>else can I do?

Where did you disable the Guest account? The Guest accounts settings
in Control Panel | User Accounts have nothing to do with network
access. They control whether someone can log in as Guest at the local
keyboard.

To enable the Guest account for network access, type this line at a
command prompt:

net user guest /active:yes

To disable it:

net user guest /active:no

To create or remove a network password for the Guest account, type
this command:

control userpasswords2

An incorrectly configured firewall would block access completely. It
wouldn't cause a password prompt.
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