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Sharing a printer on home network.

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by shawnco

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I have a printer hooked up to my desktop PC running Vista Ultimate and a wireless laptop I want to share my printer with. I can connect to the printer through the network when I first add the printer by inputing my user name and password but when I reboot the laptop I can no longer connect to the printer.

Is there a way to share the printer, like I used to be able to, without having to use a login and password for my Vista machine?

I am lost and could use some guidance.

Thanks...

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by nimmo

Have you turned on sharing and discovery? >Control Panel\Network and Sharing Center>printer sharing.

by shawnco

Yes, I have turned sharing and discovery as I can connect and print when I first add the printer just nothing in the future. It's like I have to re-log into the main PC again to have printer rights but I have no clue.

by shawnco

I will look through this document and post back my results.

Thanks!!!

by rob miners

There have been a few changes to the way Vista handles sharing.

by shawnco

Within that document there must be a new feature that is different from Vista Home Premium and Ultimate and it is the "Password protected sharing" feature within the Network and Sharing Center. When I disable this feature I no longer have to log in with a user name and password to use the printer.

Thanks for the push in the right direction True!

Regards,

Shawn...

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