 seagreenPremium,Mod
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| [W2K] Sharing a printer w/o password Situation = Home LAN set up as a workgroup
Consists of several computers including, Win98SE, XP Pro and my Win2K machine.
Because my machine is almost always on, I decided to move our printer (formerly attached to and shared from a Win98SE machine) to mine (Win2K machine).
The XP machine can print fine to this printer, the Win98SE machines cannot unless I log onto them using my username and password that I use to log onto the Win2K machine.
I have the printer shared from the Win2K machine but do not see anyplace to enable any further permissions so that the WIN98SE machines can print without using my username and password.
Is there a way to do this or do I need to move the printer back to a Win98 machine?
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davePremium,MVM
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| You can't touch any resource on an NT machine without logging on to the NT machine. It's a basic system design principle. "Adding permissions" doesn't help, because permissions are granted to someone, and without a logon, there is no "someone" to whom to grant permissions.
You can enable the Guest account, which is used as a "default" account for network logons. Then all you need is to make sure that Guest has access to the shared printer.
My Computer, Manage, Local Users and Groups, Groups. |
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seagreenPremium,Mod
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| Thank you - the no password thing makes sense as the Win98 machines aren't using passwords.
The guest account is enabled on the Win2K machine - so how do I make sure the guest account has access to the printer?
Addendum:
See the pictures - I may have disabled the guest account. (Red X) how would I re-enable it?
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 av8r7I'd Rather Be FlyingPremium
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Boca Raton, FL | said by seagreen:
See the pictures - I may have disabled the guest account. (Red X) how would I re-enable it?
The guest account is disabled by default (for security reasons). To enable it, double click the account and clear the 'Accout is disabled' check box.
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seagreenPremium,Mod
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| said by av8r7:
The guest account is disabled by default (for security reasons).
Thank you - got it. 
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| reply to seagreen
Back to this topic again.
Have a problem with one of the logons on the XP machine. The other IDs on that computer have no problem accessing/using the printer. The ID that can't access the printer has administrator privileges on the XP machine and Power User privileges on the Win2K machine (the printer is attached to the Win2K machine)
Do I need to do something different to give that user rights to use the printer? That user logs on with a password onto the XP machine as do the other users on that machine but for some reason when I go into the add printer menu the shared printer doesn't show up. When I manually added it it accepted that but then said that access was denied.
Is it because there is a user acount by the same name on the Win2K machine?
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davePremium,MVM
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| said by seagreen:
Is it because there is a user acount by the same name on the Win2K machine?
That's it.
There's some hackery in non-domain operations. The client sends the current username and password to the server (in effect; it doesn't really send them, it's all crypto stuff, but it's the same outcome). This is intended to allow you to set the same usernames and passwords on all machines an give the illusion of single logon.
If neither the username nor password match, you're eligible for Guest access (if it's enabled).
If the username matches but the password does not, the access is rejected.
My own solution to this is to have identical usernames and passwords on all machines (even if I never intend some of the users to log in interactively on some of the machines). |
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seagreenPremium,Mod
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out there | reply to seagreen
OK thanks.
So, I can make the username/pass the same on both machines or (?) just remove the username from the Win2K machine? |
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davePremium,MVM
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kudos:7 | That's my understanding, yes. |
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