Re: Two-computer network, MSHOME is not accessible" on both

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On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:49:43 -0500, Jonathan Sachs <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:52:01 -0700, Chuck <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If Everyone is the group (the only group??) listed for "Access this computer
from the network.", and if Guest isn't a member of Everyone, then Guest won't be
able to access the computer from the network. That's one problem. Make Guest a
member of "Everyone".

Would it were so easy.

Since the list of groups in Computer Management's "Groups" folder does
not show Everyone, I right-clicked the list and selected "New Group."
I entered the group name Everyone and added Guest to the group. Then
I clicked the Create button and got the error:

The following error occurred while attempting to create the group
Everyone on computer <systemname>:
The account already exists.

I puzzled over whether "account" meant "group" (the message would make
sense, but would not be true) or "user account" (the message would be
true, but would make no sense). I tried creating the group Everyone
with no members and got the same message, which means that it must be
the former. It follows that the group Everyone is defined, but is not
accessible through the list of groups, which makes it impossible to
manage.

It occurred to me that if I cannot add Guest to Everyone's set of
members, perhaps I can add Everyone to Guest's set of groups. I tried
this operation and found that Computer Management does indeed provide
for it. When I tried to do it, though, I got the error "An object
named "Everyone" cannot be found."

So the first approach won't let me add user account Guest to group
Everyone because Everyone is not in the list of groups, and won't let
me create it because it already exists; and the second approach won't
let me add for him in a group Everyone to user account Guest because
Everyone does NOT already exist.

Where do we go from here?

I think that would be a brain fart of mine, Jonathan. You can't maintain
Everyone - that's a special group that defines all accounts together. Guest, by
definition, is a member of "Everyone". As are all other accounts.

So here are the rules for Guest.
* The "Guest" account must be properly setup, and activated for network use.
* "Guest" must NOT be in LSP #1.
* "Everyone" must be in LSP #2.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Help>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Help

Starting from there, where do we go next? I'm going to recommend that we start
from the bottom, and test upwards. I'm not convinced that you have unrestricted
connectivity. Since we're using Guest, check restrictanonymous again please.
You noted above that you changed it from 1 to 0 and back to 1. With Guest
authentication, it must be 0.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/restrictanonymous-and-your-server.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/restrictanonymous-and-your-server.html
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/08/solving-network-problems-tutorial.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/08/solving-network-problems-tutorial.html
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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
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