Thursday, March 6, 2008

Adjustments needed to make a Bomgar box work on an XP Pro machine in a workgroup

I just got a Bomgar box, www.bomgar.com, and I wanted to keep track of the changes needed to make an XP Pro box in a workgroup work with Bomgar. Here are the simple instructions with a screen shot of what the final setting should look like:

click ‘Start’ >> ‘Run’ >> type ‘secpol.msc’, once the security policy tool opens, drill down to ‘Security Settings’ >> ‘Local Policies’ >> ‘Security Options’, and finally ‘Network access: Sharing and security model for local accounts’.


Set it to Classic so it looks like this:

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