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network printer mapping from workgroup

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by tl32

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I have a user logon to the workgroup on my network and he is trying to map a network printer on the W2K advance server on the domain. During the process, he was asked for a password in order to share the resource \\computername\IPC$, I tried the admin password, but no luck. I went to Microsoft Knowledge based, it indicated the Netlogon service might not be running on the server. I checked and it was running. There are no other sources I can find to resolve this problem. Anyone can help outthere? Thanks.

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by tl32

I forgot to mention, he's able to map a network printer on a NT4 server on the same domain, but not the W2K advance server

by joseph moore

Ok, so the user on a workstation that is a member of Workgroup is trying to map to a shared printer on a Win2K server that is a member of your 2K DOMAIN, right?
Easy.
For this example, let's say your Domain is called MYDOMAIN. And you Win2K machine is called WIN2KBOX. And the shared printer is called HP_PRINTER_1
Now, on the client workstation (the machine that is NOT a member of your domain), open a Command Prompt and type in:
NET USE \\WIN2KBOX\IPC$ /U:MYDOMAIN\ADMINISTRATOR
You will getan error message saying the password is incorrect; please enter the password now.
At that point, enter in the password for your Administrator account (the Admin account in your Domain).
Press enter.
That's it!
Now, your user can run the Add Printers wizard, and specify the shared printer and map to it.
But the next time the user logs out of their machine, and then logs back in again,you will have to go through mapping to the IPC share all over again.
If the user will print often to the printer, it will be easier just to add the machine they are on to your 2K Domain.

hope this helps

by tl32

Thanks, it worked. But how come the user had no problem mapping a network printer on NT4 server while a W2K server causes this error? Also, I tried this solution on a XP machine, it didn't ask for any of this, once I've done it for the first time. The user can map it without any prompt????

by chriske911

just add /persistant : yes to the command in the previous answer and you will not have to do this again as long as you do not delete this net use command

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