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    Unable to view files on laptop over network

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Syberia, Apr 4, 2012.

  1. Syberia

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    My home network is set up for password-protected file sharing between computers. I've set this up several times between reinstalls and everything always works perfectly once I figured out what I'm doing. My usual procedure is to assign a password to the guest account, disable it, and turn on password-protected sharing. On every other computer I've done this with, this allows me to log in from the network as "guest" using the password I've assigned and share files with the machine.

    I clean-installed Win 7 Home Premium x64 (same version I was running before, where this all worked) on my laptop about a week ago. I assigned a password to the guest account, disabled it (which, according to everything I've read online, should still allow it to be used for remote login), and turned on password-protected sharing. I cannot connect to the computer. It asks me for a username, to which I input "guest," as I have to log into all my other PCs, and also for the password I assigned. The first error I was getting was that the account is disabled (it shouldn't be, as this error doesn't come up on any other PC I've done this with). Then once I manually enabled it, I get "User has not been granted the requested login type at this computer."

    All fixes online require group policy editor, which Home Premium does not have. This is beginning to really frustrate me, as everything was working perfectly before I reinstalled (virus) and I have not made any tweaks to the registry or anything that would have caused this. I am not looking forward to having to do another reinstall.

    EDIT: If I turn off password-protected sharing, and leave the guest account disabled, I can connect and share files just fine, but there is no password. This works "for now," but I would really prefer there to be a password.

    '' EDIT2: Got it working. Turns out I had to disable password-protected sharing and manually set a password for the guest account with the command prompt (while leaving it disabled). I'm not sure why I had to do it this way, but everything appears to be working now.
     
    Syberia, Apr 4, 2012
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