why can't I see the printer from a workgroup Laptop on a domain PC?

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I have a laptop that is part of a Workgroup.
I have a PC that belongs to my domain.
I have a printer shared on the PC.
The laptop can't see the printer on the PC.
Other PCs can see the printer on the PC.
The laptop can see printers on other PCs on the domain, but not the printer
on this PC.
If I use the wizard to add a printer and type in the path \\PC\Printer, I'm
prompoted for a use name and password.
I've tried entering my domain admin password and it tmes out saying it can't
connect.
I turned off the Firewall on both the PC and the laptop. Still no luck.

In the wizard it will show me the domain and let me drill to the PC, but it
won't let me drill into the PC to see the printer.
I drilled into another PC on the domain and could see the printer, and was
able to connect to the printer just fine.
Didn't prompt me for a password or anything.

I also enabled the Guest account on the PC thinking that might help, but no
luck.

I'm out of ideas.

Can someone help me out?

Thanks

Kelvin
 
Kelvin said:
I have a laptop that is part of a Workgroup.
I have a PC that belongs to my domain.
I have a printer shared on the PC.
The laptop can't see the printer on the PC.
Other PCs can see the printer on the PC.
Click to expand...

Can other PC users in the domain, *print* to this printer?
The laptop can see printers on other PCs on the domain, but not the
printer on this PC.
If I use the wizard to add a printer and type in the path
\\PC\Printer, I'm prompoted for a use name and password.
I've tried entering my domain admin password and it tmes out saying
it can't connect.
Click to expand...

Try entering it as DOMAIN\username.

I turned off the Firewall on both the PC and the laptop. Still no
luck.
In the wizard it will show me the domain and let me drill to the PC,
but it won't let me drill into the PC to see the printer.
I drilled into another PC on the domain and could see the printer,
and was able to connect to the printer just fine.
Didn't prompt me for a password or anything.

I also enabled the Guest account on the PC thinking that might help,
but no luck.
Click to expand...

Don't enable Guest.....it's bad news.
 
Yes I know of one other computer that can access the prinnter.
Thanks for the comment about the quest account, I'll disable that ASAP.
I'm going to run the network connection Wizard and see if that make a
difference.
I'll try the \\domain\usename.

Thanks

Kelvin


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
Kelvin said:
Yes I know of one other computer that can access the prinnter.
Thanks for the comment about the quest account, I'll disable that
ASAP. I'm going to run the network connection Wizard and see if
that make a difference.
I'll try the \\domain\usename.
Click to expand...

That's DOMAIN\username (instead of just "username" if you are trying to
connected with a domain account.) ;-)
 
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