Comments on: Enabling Anonymous File Sharing with Vista http://www.chinhdo.com/20090101/anonymous-file-sharing-vista-guest-account/ Chinh's not quite random thoughts on software development, .NET, gadgets, and other things. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:26:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Charlie http://www.chinhdo.com/20090101/anonymous-file-sharing-vista-guest-account/comment-page-1/#comment-92572 Charlie Sat, 21 May 2011 08:41:32 +0000 http://www.chinhdo.com/20090101/enabling-anonymous-file-sharing-with-vista/#comment-92572 this does not work on vista ultimate! on a vista home (guesting) machine i get the password prompt when i type in the other computer name, if i type 'guest' with no password it returns with DDDD\guest (DDDD is the guest computer). i enabled the guest account on the guesting computer but no use. i then enabled Network Discovery on the ultimate and then it works so it is a requirement. i disabled it for performance reasons. this does not work on vista ultimate!
on a vista home (guesting) machine i get the password prompt when i type in the other computer name, if i type ‘guest’ with no password it returns with DDDD\guest (DDDD is the guest computer).
i enabled the guest account on the guesting computer but no use.

i then enabled Network Discovery on the ultimate and then it works so it is a requirement.
i disabled it for performance reasons.

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