Having trouble sharing printer over network

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Mike

I have a computer running W2K Pro that has a printer
installed on LPT1. I would like to share it with another
computer on our network running W98. I have set it up as
a shared printer, but every time the W98 computer tries to
print it a window pops up and asks for a password. We do
not have any passwords set up on the W2K computer. What
is the problem? I tried to set up this other computer as
an authorized user, but can't seem to figure it out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
This is because of IPC$ mechanism. You must have to logon as a valid user
whose account is created on Win2K Pro and this user must be assigned to
Printer. Also you must have to enable the Network Logon option from the
properties of Network NeighborHood on your Windows 98 Computer.

Zishan Javaid
(MCSE)
 
Yes... you will need to assign users and user passwords on
your W2K computer that has the printer connected to LPT1.

Once you have your unique user name and password
established in the users groups, then you must make a new
user on your win98 computer. An example would be user
name "guest" password "guest" must be set up on both w2k
and win98 machines.

Then on the w2k computer right click the printer icon and
select sharing, select the security tab, then add your
users. Once this is complete this task and you log on to
the win98 machine you can have access to the printer.
Install the printer on the win98 machine and it will load
the drivers needed to access the printer.


Hope this helps.
 
Hi Steve,

PMFJI, but I wonder if you can comment further for me please.

My school LAN runs a 2003 server, and Win98 & Win XP clients.

I am having the IPC$ "problem" on my LAN as well. However, it will be
_extremely_ time consuming to add >200 users to every Win98 workstation that
is sharing a printer (not to mention undesirable in terms of maintenance,
etc)

Is there another way to resolve this?

cheers,
Mark
 
Hi Mark,

Since you have a server, let's build up a domain (or ad) instead of running as a workgroup. Although this will be a hard work at the beginning, you will find the adv vs with the workgroup. If you'd a domain already and the PC had join to it also, I think the problems you're facing is the security/policy setting issue but not the IPC$ problems. ;)

Gary
 
Hi Gary,

OK, I should have explained further.

I have AD running, DHCP and DNS behaving (or that's my impression) and
generally things working in a satisfactory manner.
I have the usual little glitches that arise from time to time but this
printer sharing issue is repeatedly raising its head and causing problems
for the students and teachers.

My understanding, from reading in this and other NGs, is that the new
DSClient I had to load on all my Win98 PCs now places increased security
restrictions on local shares. I am hoping there is a more efficient way to
handle what I call peer2peer sharing of a printer than to enter every
student's ID into every PC that is sharing a printer. Is this possible or
is my understanding lacking?

cheers,
Mark


Gary said:
Hi Mark,

Since you have a server, let's build up a domain (or ad) instead of
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running as a workgroup. Although this will be a hard work at the beginning,
you will find the adv vs with the workgroup. If you'd a domain already and
the PC had join to it also, I think the problems you're facing is the
security/policy setting issue but not the IPC$ problems. ;)
 
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