Need Help with Accessing Network Resources from Guest Acco..

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Hi All:

I have three Windows XP Professional computers on my home wireless LAN:
DESKTOP, SERVER, LAPTOP all belonging to workgroup MSHOME. My main computer
is DESKTOP and I have three network shares physically located there in
addition to the default shared resources (SharedDocs). I also have a printer
attached to DESKTOP and shared on the network. LAPTOP is a machine which
sits in my living room in which I can access the network wirelessly from my
personal user account with admin rights.

My problem is that I also have the Guest account enabled on all computers,
but most importantly on LAPTOP. Friends and visitors in my home can go to my
laptop and into the Guest account - without password - and access the
internet. Great. However, I want them to also be able to access the
workgroup shared resources (music, pictures, video) and especially the
shared printer on DESKTOP. From Guest on LAPTOP, there is no access to
MSHOME and when trying to access the workgroup resources, a message appears
that Guest does not have sufficient access rights to MSHOME.

Makes sense out of the box. But I want to override this restriction and give
Guest on LAPTOP read/execute access to these shared resources including the
printer. I also don't want to put a password on the Guest account as I want
it freely accessible to anyone in my home. I've been trying to investigate
this issue on the web but it seems a bit over my head.

Can anyone help me? Thanks very much in advance.

Sid