Re: xp user showing as 'guest' on 2000 server

From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:04:08 -0500

Probably, you need to turn off Simple File Sharing in XP. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Eric" <postalgbv@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:33b46e27.0411031220.7a03a0bc@posting.google.com...
> We have a small office network consisting of 5 win2000 computers, a
> win2000 server, and 1 XPpro machine. We use a workgroup. We get our
> IPs from our DSL modem by DHCP, etc. It's a simple setup. We use the
> 2000 server as a file/print server (no web hosting, email server,
> etc).
>
> First of all, am I correct in assuming that there has to be a matching
> user name/password set-up on the server in order for the others to
> access properly (without accessing the server as 'guest')? I have it
> setup this way and it works fine and if I check the server to see what
> files are being accessed it shows the proper user name next to each
> file. *Except* for the XP machine. It always shows the XP user as
> 'guest' on the server. I have matching user names/passwords but can't
> figure out why it only shows up as guest. It's giving me problems
> because I want to add security to certain folders on the server, but
> when I do, the XP user loses access (because I'm taking the server
> folder off of 'everyone' and setting to power users). Why is it
> showing as guest??
>
> Thanks guys!
>
> ~~Eric 

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