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Hi! recently i installed an xp on 1 of my printer attached computer... question: How can i protect(password) my printer on unauthorized printing? i been searchin the internet for the answer... badly, i cant find a good 1. kindly help me guys... tnx.
dan
by bfilmfan
Highlight the printer. Right click and choose properties. Choose the security tab. Highlight the groups which you do NOT want to print to this printer and remove them.
Note that you SHOULD NOT remove your account, the Administrators account or the SYSTEM account from the settings.
If this on a workgroup or a domain?
by rindi1
You probably won't be able to explicitly password protect anyone for printing. What you can do is create users who need to logon, and those users will have a password. You can then add those users to the allowed users via the security tab for your printer, as explained in the answer above. Be sure to remove "everybody" from there, as well. The same users will have to exist on the other PCs on the network.
If you are a member of a Windows Server Domain, you have more possibilities to allow and restrict access to resources on your network, but if your not a domain administrator you will have to get into contact with your administrator.
by danscastro
guys, i forgot to tell you that am on a workgroup and all the pc attached are using win98 except for the 1 winxp that the printer has been attached. I can do this under win98.. dunno how to do it over xp.
dan
by farid.saiyed
You need to uncheck Simple File Sharing and have your filing system as NTFS.
Look in your Folder Options located in the control panel to uncheck Simple
File Sharing.
by farid.saiyed
You need to uncheck Simple File Sharing and have your filing system as NTFS.
Look in your Folder Options located in the control panel to uncheck Simple
File Sharing.
by visionaire
You can password protect a printer with PRINTLOCK.
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