Regular drive shares. If you are using a user account with a blank password, then file sharing has been disabled, this is a safety feature or so I'm told (if you have a blank password how safe can it be?)
You try to connect to C$ with the admin user/password combination and XP refuses to let you in giving you a password error.
With XP Pro in a WORKGROUP the default setting for Network access is to
redirect it through guest account. There is a new policy active in the “Local
Security Settings“ – “Local
Policies” – “Security Options”
"Network Access: Force network logons using local accounts to
authenticate as Guest" "Enabled"
if you set it to "disabled" share connections should work as you knew
it for Win2000 clients.
For XP personal try this:
1. At the Run command, type Regedit and click Enter.
2. Navigate to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA.
3. Select the ForceGuest registry value. Set ForceGuest=0 (Disabled).
4. Exit Regedit.
You do not need to reboot in order for this registry change to take effect.
More information below, this is the reasoning behind the change.
Managing Network Logons
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An increasing number of WinXP Professional systems are connected directly to the
Internet rather than to domains. This makes proper management of access control
(including strong passwords and permissions associated with different accounts)
more critical than ever. To ensure security, the relatively anonymous access
control settings commonly associated with open Internet environments need to be
curtailed.
As a result, the default in WinXP Pro requires all network connections that
utilize the Network special identity to use the Guest account. This change is
designed to prevent hackers attempting to access a system across the Internet
from logging on using a local Administrator account. If you choose to override
this default behavior, you need to make two key decisions:
1. Whether to allow network logons to access your system. You can
accomplish this goal by enabling the Guest account.
2. Whether to allow network logons greater permissions than are associated with
the Guest account. You can accomplish this by disabling the registry key that
forces network logons to use the Guest account (ForceGuest).
If you choose to allow one or both of these options, you must implement these
changes along with your overall authentication and access control strategies, to
ensure that outside users have only as much or as little access to the local
system as you find to be appropriate. Regardless of which option you choose, the
link between the Network logon special identity and the Guest account does not
affect the following:
* Interactive logons. This includes remote access using Terminal Server or
Telnet, for example, which are essentially "remote" instances of
interactive logon sessions.
* Network logons using domain accounts.
* Outbound connections. The access control settings of the computer you are
attempting to access govern outbound connections.
* Upgraded systems. Configuration settings that were in effect before the
upgrade will remain in effect.
* Most server-based applications. Server applications that use non-domain
accounts to access workstations (which are extremely rare and not recommended)
are the only applications that could be affected.
To ensure that remote administration of domain-based computers running WinXP
Professional is possible, you must include a domain-based account in the local
administrators group. You can use the Group Policy snap-in to disable the
registry setting that force Network logons to use the Guest account:
"Network Access: Force network logons using local accounts to authenticate
as Guest"
To allow network logons using non-Guest accounts
1. Open the Group Policy snap-in in the Microsoft Management Console and
navigate to the Security Settings container:
Local Computer Policy\ Computer Configuration\ Windows Settings\ Security
Settings\Local Policies\Security Options.
2. In the right-hand pane, select the policy "Network access: Force network
logons using local accounts to authenticate as Guest", and right-click.
Select Properties.
3. Select Disabled and Click OK.
4. Exit the Group Policy snap-in.