Re: username\guest password prompt

Steve Winograd [MVP] wrote:
In article <uWkHiEV3HHA.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.
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 ?????

You're welcome.

Here's the solution to the "login type" problem. On the XP Home
computer:

1. Download and install the Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit Tools
from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4544 .

2. Click Start | All Programs | Windows Resource Kit Tools | Command
Shell.

3. Type these lines at the command prompt. The second and third ones
are case-sensitive so type them exactly as shown. Note the "+r" in
the second one and the "-r" in the third one:

net user guest /active:yes
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest


Ran that and things are getting worse.
I now get the message
"The networkpath (ip) could not be found"

Its there,I can ping it all day long.
.

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