Logon Failure

Sorry Steve, nothing that I can report. The PC was running fine on the
network for about 12 months and then my boyfriend decided to re-format it (I
think it had a virus). Once he had reformatted it and re set it up, neither
of the other 2 pcs we have were granted access to it. I have always
suspected it was something that he selected when he was setting it up in the
first place but to be honest I cant think what.

Sorry I cant be of more help.

Ellen

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"Ellen" wrote:
Sorry Steve, nothing that I can report. The PC was running fine on the
network for about 12 months and then my boyfriend decided to re-format it (I
think it had a virus). Once he had reformatted it and re set it up, neither
of the other 2 pcs we have were granted access to it. I have always
suspected it was something that he selected when he was setting it up in the
first place but to be honest I cant think what.

Sorry I cant be of more help.

Ellen

Right out of the box after being installed, XP Home Edition doesn't
allow networked access from other computers. If they try, it prompts
them for the password for the Guest account.

If you then explicitly enable the Guest account for network access by
running the "net user guest /active:yes" command, the behavior
changes, and XP Home gives the "user has not been granted the
requested logon type at this computer" error message when another
computer tries to access it.

The usual solution is simply to run the Network Setup Wizard, which
fully enables networking.
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