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WIN2K Pro Peer ro Peer Problem

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by pconsite

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I have a WIN2K Professional machine that can see all of the shared resources on both the WIN98SE and WINXP Professional machines that I have connected to my Linksys Router/Hub (in turn to a Cable Modem on Cablevision's Optimum Online Network).

I have three printers one a Laser that is connected to the WIN98SE machine, and shared, and all three machines can see it. The other two printers are an Epson 880 and a Kodak PPM 200 (manufactured by Lexmark) physically connected to the WIN2K machine. All three printers are shared but the only one that the WINXP machine sees is the Laser.

The drives & printers on the WIN2K machine are shared but neither the WIN98 or the WINXP machines can see anything from the WIN2K machine.

I have gone to "Add a Printer", from the WINXP, and do see the WIN2K machine. When I "Browse for a printer" I type the shared name of one of the printers I get the response "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was typed incorrectly, or thespecified printer has lost its conenction to the server. For more information, click Help." (Which is no help at all!)

No matter how I try to get to the WIN2K machine I always get the response "Access is denied". I also have tried from a DOS prompt with: "net use lpt1 \\WIN2K\EPSON880" and get the response: "Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer".

I have gone to help on my WIN2K machine and nowhere have I found where I can change the "LogonType".

I have even disabled my individually installed Norton Firewalls to see if that was what was blocking the access but that was not it and I achieved the same results as before.

It has to be something within the WIN2K machine. PLEASE someone has got to click on the light over my head!

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by deadly ernest

There are two areas to check that may help you.

1. Within the Win2K machine check the Service and see if you have a service called SA Protocol and that it is turned on; this is the Share Advertising Protocol and it allows your machine to tell the others what it is sharing. Also make sure that you have the 'share properties' for each device set properly for general sharing.

2. Check that each machine has the right drivers for teach printer for the operating system of the machine you wantto print from. Some systems need this, some dont.

3. Check that each machine recognises the others and that they have the relevant accounts set up.
My nephew could not acces any shred resources on my Win XP Pro machine uintil I set up an account under his computer's name. Usually a user name would be sufficient.

When using peer-to-peern as against domain log in you often have to ensure a full range of accounts on all machines to give peer-to-peer access to all reosurces. You can set up the accounts to be NOT accessable locally if you wish, thus they would be remote access only.

by shipeev

you need to create an account on your Win2k system with exactly the same user name and password as you have it on your Win 98 and XP.
I do recomment to use the same user name and password on all systems. If its not possible - create same name and password on all machines.

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