Printing Problems

[Brian Nicholas]

Hi, I have a Desktop with Windows Vista Ultimate and a Laptop With Windows
Vista Home Premium. The Desktop has the printer connect via USB and the
laptop is connect to network wireless. The laptop can access network shared
files and also sees and installs printer. I then print a test page and it
works great. However when I try to print any documents they fail to print. I
tried intalling the printer on the laptop as a local printer then adding a
local port and mapping it to the desktop \\desktop\printer but get an access
denied error. Any other suggestions or solutions will be highly appreciated.

thanks

 

[Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)]

This post may help.

Vista: share printer without passwordVista: share printer without password
.... name & password when trying to access a folder or printer on the Vista
machine. ...
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?t=533&sid=fc9f9c45fbc04334afd371bbb4f6e376


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Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com

 

[Brian Nicholas]

Hi Robert, Thanks for your reply. I have all the password sharing off and
other settings good. I have figured out what is happening.
I go to Add Printer, then Add network, wiresless or bluetooth printer.
It then searches for available printers and doesn't find it. So i choose to
install printer that isn't listed.
I then add printer by name \\Desktop\Printer
It then prompts me for administrator username and password for the desktop
with printer connected.
I enter the details and boom connected and can print anything.

However, when I logoff or shutdown my laptop and then boot up again and try
to print I get a error-unable to send document to printer.

So I have come to the conclusion that when I entered the UN & PW when
installing the printer it seems to lose the credentials after a reboot.

How can i stop this from happening???

 

[Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)]

1. Do you enter the same username and password as the logon username and
password?
2. You may want to create the same Vista username and password in the
Desktop.

Please post back with the result.

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Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com

 

[Brian Nicholas]

Hi Robert, Sorry for the long delay on the reply. It sure did solve this
problem. I did have the same username on both machines but only the laptop
was password protected. Now I added the same password for the desktop solving
the problem.

Thanks very much