How to not login as guest??

[jurtje]

This is one for you network administrators out there:

I´m running a small network in the office and all the desktops work as they are supposed and each time I want to login to another computer, it asks my name and pw. However, If I connect my laptop to the network and try login to other computers, it will always try to do it as a guest, and therefore will not be allowed (obviously I don´t want to allow any guests on my network). The question thus is, how can I make wxp pro ask for a username and pw when trying to connect to another computer instead of trying to automatically login as a guest?? All computers are in the same workgroup.

any help appreciated

[siq]

I've never experienced this problem before. I know when we have lans and try to connect to each other though the network you have to have a user/pass. I always thought it was done when you installed the os. you set two login names; one for the person using it, and then the admin. I'm kinda stumped on this.

[KryoNexus]

if you are on a domain, i would try adding the laptop to the domain.

[Beemer]

if you are on a domain, i would try adding the laptop to the domain.

he said they were part of the same workgroup...thus no domain.

[KryoNexus]

if you are on a domain, i would try adding the laptop to the domain.

he said they were part of the same workgroup...thus no domain.

guess i must not have noticed that....not really sure then.

[Beemer]

I would make sure that there is no guest accounts on the computers.

[striker777]

What OS is the laptop and what OS's are the desktops.

[silenze]

NT file sharing is a stupid. :?

[silenze]

I have no specific answer, because I lack the interest/need for it mostly.

But... this is how I setup my 2 NT5 (2000 adv server & XP pro) machines at work:

Both have admin accounts of course.. unused mostly... both have the same username and password for the user account, so when I connect, it doesn't even prompt because the user and password are the same... NT by default tries to authenticate on the remote machine with it's local user/pass, if it doesn't work, it'll usually try to login as guest.

Note: I fscking hate windows.

[jurtje]

problem was indeed solved by turning off the guest account on the laptop. Both systems have XP and there also was one setting in administrative tools/ local security that said: authenticate as theirselves or something.

So silenze, how do you run your networks??

[silenze]

Hm I don't remember getting notified of that reply.... but, what do you mean exactly? heh (If you still remember...)

[jurtje]

I can't remember what I meant, but I guess the answer probably is that you use linux networking, from what I understand of my own posts. :?

[silenze]

it's the same way as I explained up there, sorta... heh, only with like 100 computers all together, but yeah the main servers are linux.