What's with "Auto... Printername" ?

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DrJohn

After upgrading two connected PCs to XP Pro, I shared the
several printers on each PC, only to discover a bunch of
duplicate shares named with "auto" in front of the
printer names. What is this?

At the same time, I'm now having all sorts of problems
printing over the network which worked just fine under
Win2K Pro a few weeks ago. I did discover and
disable "simple" sharing (read "sharing for dummies"), so
at least the drive shares look normal.

Can I just disable the auto printer sharing and get on
with it??

tkx. DrJohn
 
Open Windows Explorer and from the Toolbar, select Tools, Folder Options....

From the View tab, uncheck the first box... Automatically search for network
folders and printers.

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
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