So are you saying that one should disable simple file sharing in Windows? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Yes, This is called force guest. It maps any connections to the machine to the guest account. It turns off the admin shares on the XP machine, too (admin$, c$). If you are trying to use any central management tools, (For Kaspersky, in my case), they don't work. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpsimsh.html If you join an XP machine to a Windows domain, it gets turned off as part of the process. Not sure about a Samba domain, because I had done it before I joined any machines (but I would think so....) Here's the registry key, if you want to add it to a script....: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa] "forceguest"=dword:00000000 Dennis _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos