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DRIVE ACCESS VIA NETWORK NEIGHBORHOOD...

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by rlwolfgram

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I have been an IT manager for 3 years and I just learned this the other day. I didn't know that you could enter the this string "\\192.168.2.132\c$" (where 192.168.2.132 is the IP address of the computer) and get access to their harddrive. The "c$" represents the harddrive with the drive label of C. After entering that, it prompts for user name and password. The problem I am having is that 3 computer on my network auto-fill in the user with "GUEST" and gray it out so it can't be changed. Any ideas what is causing this?

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by tintoman

The guest account is always turned off by default, therefore if no other user accounts are set up on the local machines you will not be able to access them in this way.
So either enable the guest account (definitely NOT recommended) or set up a user account for yourself on the machines concerned

by rlwolfgram

No - I do not want to use the guest account. The problem is that the user name box is USER NAME box has GUEST already filled in and the box is grayed out so you can't change it.

Anywho I solved the problem. The machines that had this issue needed two things to happen to get them to work. First the administrator account must have a password and this account must have been logged into at least once. Second the SIMPLE FILE SHARING must be turned off.

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