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General Sharing Question
I hope this is in the right place. I recently had to do a complete
reinstall of an old XP Pro machine. It was hosting a USB laster printer that was shared with everyone on my LAN (XP Home, XP Pro & Vista). Previously, when anyone wanted to 'attach' to the printer, all they had to do was use the wizard and 'search for network printers' and it would show up. Now, after rebuilding the machine to XP Pro SP3, I find that even though I have shared the printer with "Everyone", anyone who wishes to attach to the printer needs to enter a username and password to even SEE it. And, this is the really strange part, if they go to Network Places, find a shared folder on the "printer" computer and try to access it, they have to enter a username and password THERE also. Previously, they did not have to. Did SP3 mess with the General Policies, or do I need to change something there? I frankly cannot remember if I did anything to the old system as it was originally installed about 5 or 6 years ago. Any thoughts? GP |
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General Sharing Question
Dang. It happens every time. Just as soon as I give up and post, I
find the problem. I forgot that XP Pro turns the Guest account OFF by default. All I had to do was turn it on and allow 'simple file sharing'. I gonna have that one tattooed on my forehead. GP --- I hope this is in the right place. I recently had to do a complete reinstall of an old XP Pro machine. It was hosting a USB laster printer that was shared with everyone on my LAN (XP Home, XP Pro & Vista). Previously, when anyone wanted to 'attach' to the printer, all they had to do was use the wizard and 'search for network printers' and it would show up. Now, after rebuilding the machine to XP Pro SP3, I find that even though I have shared the printer with "Everyone", anyone who wishes to attach to the printer needs to enter a username and password to even SEE it. And, this is the really strange part, if they go to Network Places, find a shared folder on the "printer" computer and try to access it, they have to enter a username and password THERE also. Previously, they did not have to. Did SP3 mess with the General Policies, or do I need to change something there? I frankly cannot remember if I did anything to the old system as it was originally installed about 5 or 6 years ago. Any thoughts? GP |
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