Help Please ...Accessing other PCs is denied (WXP-Pro)

[MnInShdw]

Hi All,

I've made a local network containing 3 Winxp Pro - 1 W2k - 1 Win98 and 1 win95 machine.

Everything works just fine and the necessary files and folders are shared just properly.

The only problem is I can't have access to Win2k and winXp's desktop from the other PCs. I've tried to make a shortcut of win2k's desktop. But as I try to make the shortcut I receive an error that says I haven't the permission to access \\Dell-gx\C\Documents and Settings\MnIn Shdw" and I have to call the administrator.

I have the privilliges of an administrator and actually log in as an administrator to all the PCs.

What can I do to let winxp and win2k let me access to the desktop from another machine?

Any kind of assist/help is much appreciated

MnInShdw

[Paul S]

Hi,

Is the password the same on all of the Administrator accounts?

Regards,

<font color=green>Paul</font color=green>

<font color=blue>mailto:paul@winguides.com (paul@winguides.com)</font color=blue>

[MnInShdw]

Hi Paul38 and thanks for the reply.

I'm mostly on one of winxp machines and login with an account name "MnInShdw" with administrator privilliges and I've set a password for it. No Password has been set for the other PC's.

I've made a shortcut of win98 and win95 machines' desktop into my C:\Documents and Settings\MnInShdw\SendTo and am able to send different documents to the other PC's desktop. but have had no luck for machines on winXp and Win2K pro.

Any kind of input may be a great help to me.
Thanks in advance.

MnInShdw

[Andy-S]

This may help but may not. I have seen many weird access problems on mixed networks when the XP firewall is enabled. You should check that it's disabled.

Cheers
Andy

[MnInShdw]

Thanks Andy-S for the reply.

It's already off.


MnInShdw

[POBrien]

Login as Admin
Go to Administrative tools in control panel
Computer management
Local users and groups
users
Open the Guest account
uncheck the Account is disabled option

Close Computer Management

Next,

While in Admin tools..
Launch Local Security Policy
Navigate too Local Policy/User Rights Assignment
(In the right hand pane) Open
Access this computer from the network &gt;&gt; Add in the guest account
Deny Login Locally &gt;&gt; Remove the guest account
Logon on Locally &gt;&gt; Make sure the guest account is added

Close Local Security Policy

Reboot the machine

* Perform the same steps on the remaining NTx pc's.

POBrien

"Knowledge is important and Power is not. Fixing the Problem is what counts"

[MnInShdw]

Thanks POBrien,

I'm at home now. Tomorrow I'll follow your instruction at office and will post the result here.

I appreciate your help

MnInShdw