Shared Printers Windows 2000 Professional

D

Douglas Cummings

Windows 98 computers get the following response when they
attempt to connect to a shared printer on a Windows 2000
Professional computer: \\computername\IPC$ and they are
unable to connect.
 
P

Pat

they have to have rights to the printer to be able to
connect to it??? do they have rights???
 
T

Tom

You have to activate the Guest-account on the 2000-machine.

Rightclick My Computer

Handle...

Users and Accounts.

Then under the Usermap you have all users.

Activate the Guest-account by rightclick it
and then uncheck Inactive.
 

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