you misunderstood what I said, I needed guests to have access to my shared folder on the domain.
enabling that turns on guest account

that does not make a full guest profile, only access to a...

I faced a similar issue, turning off password protected sharing enabled the guest account, which is the only other account on my system

this is the only thing that worked for me:
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I faced a similar issue, turning off password protected sharing enabled the guest account, which is the only other account on my system

this is the only thing that worked for me:
...