[canooten]

I'm having a bad brain day and can't remember something pretty simple.

I had to reload a computer today to get it ready for a new employee and everything is fine except for one small thing.

When I attempt to access the machine by browsing through My Network or through the Run feature, I get a login box with the username grayed out. It has the name of the computer with /guest filled in and asks for a password.
I need to be able to log in using my administrator account that is present on this and all machines on my network. As of now I cannot specify the account to log in with.

Help me out with what I'm missing....I set 20 of them up 18 months ago and they all work fine...can't remember what I did on those......

[Law]

You only need admin when you are browsing the hidden drives.

Type \\computername\c$

And enter the administrative account/password on the remote computer.

When you try to browse through My Network Place, you are trying to view shares that are created and it's trying to login as Guest to the remote computer. When that prompt appear it means the Guest account is either enable in Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Local Users and Groups>Users and nothing is being share that the Guest account can browse. It uses the Guest account by default, if you have account with similar name and password, then it will switch to that if Guest is disable.

[canooten]

You only need admin when you are browsing the hidden drives.

Type \\computername\c$

And enter the administrative account/password on the remote computer.

That's what I need it for. I don't like setting up shared drives, and there are times I need to access the hidden shares (c$) in order to upgrade certain programs.
I'm attempting access by typing the user. In this case "\\c_daglis\c$", but I still get a default user of "guest" with no way to change to another user.



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I checked the location in Admin Tools that you referenced and the Guest account is x'd, so I guess it's disabled.

[fixal0t]

They need to be part of the same workgroup for that to work.

[canooten]

^^

That's not the case with the other machines on my network. We have 2 workgroups on the network and I can access any of them from my PC regardless of workgroup.