Re: username\guest password prompt

In article <uHuHi1e3HHA.5160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rowland
<I@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The original problem:
1.When attempting to map a network drive from any xp pro machine on my
network to a machine with xp home on it I only got a username/guest
password box which is greyed out.You can't log in as guest not that I
would want to anyway

2.Reset guest password to nothing using control userpasswords2 prompt
This then resulted in this message when attempting to map a network drive"
"The user has not been granted the requested login type at this computer"

3.Downloaded Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit Tools and ran as you
described in your above post.Everything went fine there.
Now when attemping to map a networkdrive I get this message and it fails
"The networkpath \\192.168.1.110\c$ could not be found"

4. 192.168.1.110 is there,I can ping it.My problem remains that it seems
you cannot map network drives from a XP pro machine to a XP home one.I
can map a drive from the xp home to any xp pro machine however.
Sorry but thats about as clear as I can get.

incidently I have tried this tip to no avail also
http://www.j79zlr.com/howto.php?id=14

You're trying to map a drive letter to an administrative share C$.
Windows XP Home Edition doesn't have administrative shares.

You can manually share the C drive and then map a drive letter to it:

\\192.168.1.110\c

or

\\computer\

->You're trying to map a drive letter to an administrative share C$.
-> Windows XP Home Edition doesn't have administrative shares.

That little tidbit of info solved was my whole prob;em.Shared the C
drive on the XP Home machine manually and took of the $ on th ip and it
went right thru.Thank you!I never had that problem in the past sharing
C$ from a XP Pro machine to a 98SE one so I never even thought about it.

You're welcome! I'm glad that my tidbit helped you solve the problem.

BTW, you can end the name of a shared folder with a dollar sign, such
as "C$". That makes it a hidden share, which doesn't appear in
Network Neighborhood or My Network Places on other computers. You can
still map a drive letter to a hidden share. I've written a web page
with details:

Windows XP Simple File Sharing
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm
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