Anonymous prinitng

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suresh

Hi all,
I wanted a help in printing a Anonymous user; like if some
one come to my organisation for few hours to work and he
wanted his data to be printed; how can i enable Anonymous
user for printing.

regards

suresh
 
To be able to print, you have to get authenticated on the print server,
which means you have to know a username and password that the print server
can authenticate (e.g. a local or domain user account). The only way around
this requirement is to enable the Guest account, which is not recommended as
it seriously weakens the system security.

A possible bypass is to have this someone (or you can do it for that
someone) use the command:

net use \\printserver\IPC$ * /user:username

If the username is a domain name, then use /user:domainname\username.

For example, if the print server computer is called PS, the username is
friend:

net use \\PS\IPC$ * /user:friend

The "*" will cause a prompt for the password, which will not be displayed
while it is keyed. Alternatively, you can key the actual password in place
of the "*", but then it will be readable in the Command Prompt window.

Then, it should be possible for this visitor to connect to and use a network
printer on that print server.
 
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