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Shared printer in P2P network

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by anastasio

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p2p network, Win2K Pro and WinXP Home edition. i have an HP Laserjet 4 connected and shared to one of the win2k Pro workstaion through the parallel port. however, i am not able to add the printer to any of the other workstations. the only way i amable to do it is when i go through the network places and access the workstation that the printer is connected to, but when i do that windows prompts me for a username and password and i enter the username and password of the computer that has the printer connected to. after that, i am able to print, but when i restart the computer where i just added the printer and try to print again it does not let me print, access denied or re-install printer drive. i have configured the netwok using the network id, but it does not work. is there anything that i could do to resolve this problem?

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by jwilczyn

On the other workstations - create a user with the same user name and password as on the PC with attached printer.
Check that this printer is shared.
Good luck

by quintar51

the downside to p2p networks, is that you constantly have to be authenticated when accessing a share if you reboot your machine.

You can perhaps create some sort of script that will set your credentials to all shares as soon as you log on, but this is just an idea.

Having a server eliminates this problem, since it keeps track of your user name and password, and as soon as you access a share, it authenticates you automatically.

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WIN2kPro requires authentication to access it's resources. If the machine that has the printer shared does not have jon, jane, and joe as users, then jon, jane, and joe will not be able to access the printer. You will need to create jon, jane, and joe user accounts on this machine, and set the passwords to match the passwords that jon, jane, and joe use to logon to their respective machines. This way, when jon, jane or joe request access to the shared printer, the username/password that they used to logon to their machines matches a username/password account on the shared printer machine and they are allowed to access the resource.

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