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Modifying the Guest account

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iaswnidou

iaswnidou

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Apr 19, 2005
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Hello

I have activated the guest account for other users of my PC and now I would like to restrict their access to only one of the drives and set other restrictions as well, such as download limit no more than 1GB.
How are these tasks accomplished in Windows XP? with Group Policies? If you could direct me to a tutorial for beginners i'd be grateful.

Thank you
 
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Drive access can be controlled with NTFS permissions. You may need to disable Simple File Sharing to fully utilize these permissions.

Group policy can be used to set some restrictions, but not a download limit. For one thing, if all other users use the Guest account and guest user A downloads .99999GB, what happens to guest user B? For another problem, in what time frame do you wish this restriction to apply?
 
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