HELP with sharing!

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OK,

I am working on a XP Home machine, just patching it etc and needed access to a folder on it remotely..

So I went to share it, and this box appears..

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing/filesharing03.gif

Now I am surprised at this considering its a XP Home and we all know how insecure they are... so I enable sharing and share the folder, however I now cannot get the system back to this "secure" state!!!

How do I disable remote access!!

Any ideas?

 

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This any help?

 

Hi,

Thanks for the reply but unfortunately not. As I am running XP Home, I cannot disable the Simple File Sharing..

Nor do I want to, I just want to "disable remote access" again, like it says in the screenshot!

Basically I need to figure out how sharing a folder changes the system, then reverse it...

 

Right Click My Computer, Properties, Remote?

 

Hi,

Remote Assistance is not enabled and never has been!!!

Windows firewall also has not been on the whole time...

How stupid is this huh!

 

so do you want to disable (remote desktop) or (any network access)?

remote desktop would be through the remote tab of system properties, network access would be through (local) group policy.

 

Hi,

I am fully aware of how to disable remote access so please do not worry about that..

The basic scenario is I went to share a folder on this machine... obviously nothing had been shared before on it and I was presented with the display of the pic found in my first post...

If I attempted to use another machine on the same LAN to access the machine via a \\Acer, all I get is a prompt for the username and password (The username greyed out with guest entered - due to the fact its XP Home)... if I enter the correct password for the guest account (Which I changed when I first setup the machine using the "net user guest password" on the command line).. it just keeps returning the login box.. thus denying remote access just like it says in the pic...

I then share a folder on the machine, not using the wizard, just sharing it, I do my stuff, then I unshare the folder... however the sharing menu does not return to the screen in my first post... and the machine is no longer denying remote access because if I attempt to go to it via another machine on the LAN, I enter the guest credentials and it shows me the printers and scheduled tasks...

So how do I make it so it denies remote access... I have tried changing the guest password again, and disabling the server service but neither of these have helped...

 

disabling the guest account should work. then take a look at the Security Options (Network Access: *) policies.

dunno if these options are on XP Home though.

edit: wait, so is the problem that users can access the computer, or do you just want to unshare that particular folder?

 

Hi,

Group Policy is not available to edit in XP Home, neither is disabling the Guest account... (You can disable a local guest login but not a network one)

Basically when I first set it up, it was mega secure, and now I have shared and then unshared a folder it is less secure because people can actually log into it.. (Yes I know all they can see is Scheduled Tasks and Printers but that is not the point)!

Do you understand just how frustrating this is!!

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300489/

 

Surely that screen you posted in the original posting was saying that you haven't set up any networking?

So to get back to that you need to remove all the networking I would have thought.

Once networking is setup you get a similar, but different box whenever you try to share something.

Or have I missed something along the way?

Edit: I've just noticed that this is part of ICS - so the rules are different there. How about removing ICS althogether and then re-doing it?

Harry.

 

Hey AJ that is also not what I am looking for.. I think I am just going to have to play with it and see if I can reverse it all..

Omni, I believe that Microsoft statement is vague and misleading...

"The guest account is disabled on Windows XP" I believe means you cannot login to the machine with it (i.e. In XP Home's case it removes the guest entry from the Welcome screen). Obviously if you login as an Administrator on XP Professional you can use computer management to enable/disable the guest account.. With XP Home to simply get to the Administrator you need to be in Safe Mode... (i.e. you cannot login to the Administrator account in XP Home from a normal startup - basically the Administrator is not available as an entry on the Welcome screen either...)..

But I believe you can not disable the guest account on an XP Home machine, simply because that is what XP Home uses as its basis for sharing... Maybe I am wrong, I do not have the machine with me to go into safe mode, login as Administrator and disable the Guest account.... I shall get it back and try it and let you know...

EDIT: Maybe disabling the guest account is the answer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281248/en-us

And maybe it does come disabled by default (Although I do not remember it doing this) and maybe when I clicked share the folder it simply enables the guest account??

 

Have you removed file and printer sharing and any other unnecessary protocols from your LAN properties? That would help

I don't use XP Home here at home but I would have thought that if you turn the built in firewall on and configure it to include your local area network. You would prevent anyone from connecting to it's resources

 

I went back to this machine running XP Home... and ran

net user guest /active:no

And it did return the sharing settings to their original state as per the picture in my first post...

Thanks to everyone who helped..!