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should I create an account for them on my machine with the same name as their account?
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should I create an account for them on my machine with the same name as their account?

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Does the guest account have any access to anything by default? In other words, if I enable the guest account will I be opening myself up to security hazards?<br />
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Or will the guest account only have access to the share I will allow the guest account on?
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Does the guest account have any access to anything by default? In other words, if I enable the guest account will I be opening myself up to security hazards?

Or will the guest account only have access to the share I will allow the guest account on?

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The Guest account belongs to Everyone and Guests groups. So anywhere Everyone is granted access, Guest has too.<br />
See description of Guest in:<br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/lsm_local_users.asp" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/lsm_local_users.asp</a><br />
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hope this helps
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The Guest account belongs to Everyone and Guests groups. So anywhere Everyone is granted access, Guest has too.
See description of Guest in:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/lsm_local_users.asp [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/lsm_local_users.asp]

hope this helps

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I have a windows 2003 machine and 2 other machines, both XP I believe, I want to allow them to access a share on my machine. They all belong to &quot;WORKGROUP&quot;.<br />
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On the share I have maximum allowed, anonymous logon and everyone full control under security I have anonymous logon and everyone, but they still get prompted to logon.<br />
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Any ideas?
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I have a windows 2003 machine and 2 other machines, both XP I believe, I want to allow them to access a share on my machine. They all belong to "WORKGROUP".

On the share I have maximum allowed, anonymous logon and everyone full control under security I have anonymous logon and everyone, but they still get prompted to logon.

Any ideas?

Allow access to windows 2003 share

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