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October 7, 2010 at 09:50 AM
onlinegeek101

User accounts on Xp Print Share?

by onlinegeek101 . Updated 15 years, 8 months ago

I am trying to set up a make shift print server to buffer jobs between network access to the printer. I am doing this by putting an older xp dell tower between the network and the printer. I have the printer shared to a localgroup named printClients in which I will add user accounts for those who I want to allow access to the printer. This printer will have to be accessed by macs, xp macines, and vista/windows 7 machines. I have the sharing enabled on all machines and I also have the security settings setup on the printer to allow the printClients user group to print. I was able to add the printer and print when supplying a username from the mac with no problem. I moved over to the pc that has Xp on it and I am running into issues. I added the PC and when prompted for username and password I provided my administrator rights. I told it not to remember my password and following a successful test page I logged off then back on. Now I wanted to test my user accounts to see if they worked. The problem is I am not prompted to enter account information now when I try to print, I simply get a access denied prompt from the os. How can I get it so that the os will prompt me for credentials upon print request. Also when I tried to perform the same thing on the windows 7 machine, I can see the printer on the network but when I try to add it, there are no compadible drivers. The printer is a HP Laserjet 1320tn, and I cannot seem to find windows 7 drivers online that I can add under the additional drivers option on the XP print “server”. I can however add the networked printer if I remove it from being behind its PC “print server” and just use it as a network printer. Any idea’s?

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