Microsoft Home & professional problem

[marju1]

I have 3 computers, 2 PC use XP home , 1 PC use XP professional for my
office .
My problem is 1 PC use XP home share printer to use , and another PC
used XP home can print , no problem , but another PC used XP
professional can't print . Actually XP professional that PC is logged
by domain already , also need to login XP home PC every time that can
print , it give me trouble and silly to login another PC to print .
please Kindly help , thanks ....

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Reconnect all PCs using Windows Network Wizard. Make sure you give the
same name to the network such as WORKGROUP or HOME_NETWORK. Also have a
floppy or USB memory key to copy settings to transfer to other PCs.

hth

 

[Malke]

Reconnect all PCs using Windows Network Wizard. Make sure you give
the
same name to the network such as WORKGROUP or HOME_NETWORK. Also have
a floppy or USB memory key to copy settings to transfer to other PCs.

Windows machines do not need the same Workgroup name to share resources.
Workgroups are only an organizational/cosmetic device.

Because one of the computers is XP Pro, disable Simple Sharing from the
Folder Options>View tab. XP Home computers authenticate as Guest which
is what the Simple Sharing setting allows.

If you need the ability to set more fine-grained permissions on your XP
Pro machine, then disable Simple Sharing and create identical user
accounts and passwords on all machines. Then share out resources as
desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users' home directories (My
Documents) or Program Files, but you can share folders inside those
directories. A better choice is to simply use the Shared Documents
folder.

If that doesn't work for you, here is an excellent network
troubleshooter by MVP Hans-Georg Michna. Take the time to go through it
and it will usually pinpoint the problem area(s) -
http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm

Malke

 

[Malke]

I have 3 computers, 2 PC use XP home , 1 PC use XP professional for my
office .
My problem is 1 PC use XP home share printer to use , and another PC
used XP home can print , no problem , but another PC used XP
professional can't print . Actually XP professional that PC is logged
by domain already , also need to login XP home PC every time that can
print , it give me trouble and silly to login another PC to print .
please Kindly help , thanks ....

Just an addendum to my earlier post in case I mistyped something:

To enable Guest on the XP Pro machine, *enable* Simple Sharing.
To disable Guest and use authentication by user accounts and passwords,
*disable* Simple Sharing (Pro only) and create the identical accounts
and passwords.

XP Home can only use Simple Sharing.

Malke

 

[Kenny T]

Thanks you for your reply , actually I want to know step by step method
how to solve due to I have tried many time still failed , many thanks .