ACCESS DENIED/ Unable to connect to printer. PRINTER PROBLEM!

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Brad

Hello, I have a local shared printer on this computer.
The network is two peer to peer computers. I have a
printer shared on this computer with Windows 2000 SP4.
The other computer im trying to capture it on is a Windows
XP home PC. I can capture the printer using UNC paths or
IP addresses. But as soon as I log off the XP home
computer or reboot. I get a message when it tries to
recapture the printer. Access Denied/unable to connect.
I have looked up this error on Microsofts knowledge base,
and it said it could be that I'm not checking "remember
password" when I type in the user name and password to
connect to this printing device. But I do that. I login
using the administrator account and check remember my
password. Then I can print just fine when I do that.
Then I reboot the machine and it rejects it somehow. I
have done about everything I know how to do. I have
checked the print attribute on all the local accounts that
have anything to do with this device. If anyone could
help me I would greatly appreciate it.
 
Hi,
First of all I want to know which machine you reboot Windows XP or
Windows 2000


Abhijeet Nigam, MCSE,A+,CCNA
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I had this exact same problem and managed to resolve it after a few days
of trying all sorts of things, so here is your solution!

When you connect to the network printer from your XP machine you are
using the Administrator logon ID (Same as I did) and it attached and
could be used fine. However, when you log off from XP and then back on
again it looks like XP tries to reconnect you to the network printer
using your login ID on your XP machine! Therefore it is NOT trying to
reconnect as Administrator. To fix this I added all my XP user ID's or
Profiles to the Windows 2000 PC which had the printer attached. Then,
when I logged in to my XP machine using my normal Profile, i.e. not
Administrator, XP reconnected me to the network printer on my Windows
2000 PC as my account now existed on it.

Hope this helps!

I will contact Microsoft to log this bug as when you select Remember
password, it does NOT remember the username used to attach to the
printer.
 
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