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Old June 23rd 06, 10:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
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Sorry for posting this in Windows ME, but I'm not too sure where the Windows
2000 Pro discussion group is!

At my place of work, I have "rigged" a computer to work off the company next
door's broadband platform (with their permission.) Just ethernet cable
through the wall work's brilliantly!

6 meg broadband for free!

Me and one other regular user of the machine has our own login's with our
own passwords. Both of our accounts works perfectly!

I have enabled the guest account (Control PanelUsersAdvancedAdvanced User
Management) (something like that, I'm sitting at home using xp, which is
slightly different) By unchecking the "this account is disabled checkbox"

For some reason (I've not kept a record of how many days) but every five or
seven days, somthing like that it then locks itself again. So when people who
come into the office who just require access to the internet go to use the
account, they are told that the account is disabled and to contact their
administrator.

This is becoming annoying, because when I'm not in the office I get phone
calls asking for the admin's login details, which in the modern world we live
in, shouldn't be necessary.

I was talking to another college and they suggested that I create a new
PROPER (not a built in guest one) and allow the users access to this, giving
it a name of PUBLIC or something suitable. This is a possibility, but the
amount of restrictions that I've put into place (eg. no internet options, no
access to the hard drive through my computer, no run, no regedit, etc etc
etc.) will take me several hours to pump back into a new account!

Can someone tell me if there is a registry fix that states how many days and
account can remain active?

Please help!

DAN
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Dan Walters
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Old June 23rd 06, 10:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
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The microsoft.public.win2000.general hierarchy is available via your
browser at:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...1-f1fc4df74b7a
however why not do yourself a favour and use the newsgroups in the way
they were intended and use a news client (Outlook Express will do here)
and subscribe to the Microsoft news server msnews.microsoft.com?
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006]



DanielWalters6 wrote:

Sorry for posting this in Windows ME, but I'm not too sure where the
Windows 2000 Pro discussion group is!

At my place of work, I have "rigged" a computer to work off the
company next door's broadband platform (with their permission.) Just
ethernet cable through the wall work's brilliantly!

6 meg broadband for free!

Me and one other regular user of the machine has our own login's with
our own passwords. Both of our accounts works perfectly!

I have enabled the guest account (Control
PanelUsersAdvancedAdvanced User Management) (something like that,
I'm sitting at home using xp, which is slightly different) By
unchecking the "this account is disabled checkbox"

For some reason (I've not kept a record of how many days) but every
five or seven days, somthing like that it then locks itself again. So
when people who come into the office who just require access to the
internet go to use the account, they are told that the account is
disabled and to contact their administrator.

This is becoming annoying, because when I'm not in the office I get
phone calls asking for the admin's login details, which in the modern
world we live in, shouldn't be necessary.

I was talking to another college and they suggested that I create a
new PROPER (not a built in guest one) and allow the users access to
this, giving it a name of PUBLIC or something suitable. This is a
possibility, but the amount of restrictions that I've put into place
(eg. no internet options, no access to the hard drive through my
computer, no run, no regedit, etc etc etc.) will take me several
hours to pump back into a new account!

Can someone tell me if there is a registry fix that states how many
days and account can remain active?

Please help!

DAN


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Old June 23rd 06, 12:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
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Default SORRY!...

Thankyou. Am I able to use OUTLOOK 03 to pick up these newgroups, or does it
have to be express?


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Dan Walters


"Mike M" wrote:

The microsoft.public.win2000.general hierarchy is available via your
browser at:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...1-f1fc4df74b7a
however why not do yourself a favour and use the newsgroups in the way
they were intended and use a news client (Outlook Express will do here)
and subscribe to the Microsoft news server msnews.microsoft.com?
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006]



DanielWalters6 wrote:

Sorry for posting this in Windows ME, but I'm not too sure where the
Windows 2000 Pro discussion group is!

At my place of work, I have "rigged" a computer to work off the
company next door's broadband platform (with their permission.) Just
ethernet cable through the wall work's brilliantly!

6 meg broadband for free!

Me and one other regular user of the machine has our own login's with
our own passwords. Both of our accounts works perfectly!

I have enabled the guest account (Control
PanelUsersAdvancedAdvanced User Management) (something like that,
I'm sitting at home using xp, which is slightly different) By
unchecking the "this account is disabled checkbox"

For some reason (I've not kept a record of how many days) but every
five or seven days, somthing like that it then locks itself again. So
when people who come into the office who just require access to the
internet go to use the account, they are told that the account is
disabled and to contact their administrator.

This is becoming annoying, because when I'm not in the office I get
phone calls asking for the admin's login details, which in the modern
world we live in, shouldn't be necessary.

I was talking to another college and they suggested that I create a
new PROPER (not a built in guest one) and allow the users access to
this, giving it a name of PUBLIC or something suitable. This is a
possibility, but the amount of restrictions that I've put into place
(eg. no internet options, no access to the hard drive through my
computer, no run, no regedit, etc etc etc.) will take me several
hours to pump back into a new account!

Can someone tell me if there is a registry fix that states how many
days and account can remain active?

Please help!

DAN



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Old June 23rd 06, 12:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
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Default SORRY!...

You can use Outlook to access the newsgroups - it hooks into Outlook
Express for the newsgroups but otherwise continues as before. You should
be able to find more details in Outlook's help.
--
Mike Maltby



DanielWalters6 wrote:

Thankyou. Am I able to use OUTLOOK 03 to pick up these newgroups, or
does it have to be express?


 




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