At 07/24/2005, Bernie Cosell wrote:
Any ideas about what the subject or something might have been? I thought
so and I've been searching the archives, but I apparenlty haven't hit on
the right search terms yet... Thanks!
Sorry to resurrect a week old thread, but I haven't been reading the
list this week. Anyway...
I have tried finding a third party tool that would allow you to do
group policy stuff in Home, but I haven't had any luck. I posted a
couple of weeks ago about issues with my nephew hacking into my
daughter's account on their computer. I was just wanting to limit
the number of failed password attempts, but you can't do that in Home.
Neil Atwood gave me the "control userpasswords2" command line last
year (I'd saved that particular email for future reference). I don't
recall what I was trying to do at the time, but it didn't help
anyway. It looks like a leftover Pro command that wasn't removed
from Home. Some things it can do in Home, other things it tries to
do and can't because Home just doesn't have the components. I don't
think it would help much here either.
It boils down to, Home just isn't Pro.
I'm not sure why your limited account can't access the network. I
currently have three machines networked in my house and they can all
see each other and see the Internet, all from their limited
accounts. Are you not able to access shares on different computers
on your network, or are you not able to reach the Internet?
If it's the former, the only thing I can think of, is that you gave
the Guest account a password. Home uses a simple file sharing and
forces access to shares through the Guest account. Even if the Guest
account is turned off, it doesn't go away. If you assigned it a
password (which I believe you must do from the command line) the
shares become inaccessible, even if the password is entered. It's
simply not set up to work that way.
Other than that, do any of your computers have a software firewall
that is denying access?
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Tony Lowe, The HapMaster
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?
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