Hard Drive sharing

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I was in the Admin in the pic.

The Command prompt fixed my problem, I can now freely set and change the PW on my guest account.

I finally set it up like you said jobeard and it works like a charm <(**<) (>**)> It askes me for a PW to access the HD I want to share

Thank you for your help. <(**<) (>**)> <(**<) (>**)> <(**<) (>**)> <(**<) (>**)> <(**<) (>**)> <(**<) (>**)>

I spoke to soon. When I try to explore documents on my desktop from my laptop, it prompts me with a PW. The problem is when I put the PW I gave for the guest acc. in, the PW window keeps popping back up.

It seems its not allowing me access with the PW.

Its also hiding it on some of the computers on my network when there is a PW on guest.

I've been trying to figure it out but now its doing something different.

I can now get full access to the HD even when the Guest account has a password.

Am I doing something wrong?
 
i previously had winxp Home on this machine and can verify that guest account does not let you set a password from your normal user control screen.

Go to Start >Run and type in control userpasswords2
You should see the Guest account in the list, select it and i think it was either click on properties or the box underneath the list should read "Password for Guest" (if you've clicked on Guest) and go from there.

*sorry didn't see new posts.
 
ATM it has been working to some extent, my laptop has full access to the HD and documents on my desktop. The thing is it isnt even letting the other computers even try to enter a pass, it just says the path is off limits to the user. (not that im complaining) I just wish things would work liike they say >.<
 
hum;

Your HD has a hidden share for itself, intended by the boys at MS to be used
by an ADMIN on a domain controlled environment for maintenance and support.
(IPC$ if I recall correctly).

If you shared your profile directory (\Docs & Settings\$yourprofile), then only
your user files would be accessible. Sharing the HD allows access to \Windows
which is a very bad idea.

You have more than one symptom that has significant variation from
my system. Have you considered using a System Restore?
 
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