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Todd Prickett
January 9th 04, 10:37 PM
Back in the Win98/ME days I was able to require a password as a way to
limit who could access my machine over the network. I'm now running
XP Pro and want to do the same think.

So far, I found and unchecked the "Simple File Sharing" checkbox.
I assigned a password to the guest account.

Now when I try to access that machine over the network, I receive an
error message saying "Login failure: Bad user name or password".
But, I was not given a chance to enter a password (I assume its
defaulting to the guest user).

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

TIA

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