Re: username\guest password prompt

Well,tried that but it then resulted in this prompt when trying to map drive from the xp pro to xp home machine.

"The user has not been granted the requested login type at this computer"

Any other suggestions ?I think i might just have toformat the home machine and load pro on it as I can't seem to find the answer to this.Don't really want to but ?????



Steve Winograd [MVP] wrote:
In article <elBPMpT3HHA.3400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rowland
<I@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have four computers on a home network.Three are XP Pro and one is XP Home.I share all drives to all four machines.My problem is with the XP home machine.I can see(share) my shared drives from the XP home to any xp pro but none of the xp pro machines will map any network drive back to the XP home machine.I simple get the password box with
username\guest password box (greyed out)and password request.Obviously there is no password for that account.This has got something to do with the limits of xp home networking but there has to be a solution?

On the XP Home computer:

1. Make sure that the Guest account is enabled for access by other
computers over the network:

a. Open a command prompt window (Start > Run > cmd).

b. Type this command, then press Enter:

net user guest /active:yes

2. Remove the network password from the Guest account:

a. Click Start > Run.
b. Type "control userpasswords2" in the box and click OK.
c. Click Guest.
d. Click Reset Password.
e. Click OK without entering a new password.
.

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