access denied, unable to connect printer

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Please correct your PC's clock! Today's date is
not 12/23/2004! It's 11/23/2004! Thank you!

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| I am running a network in which when i reboot one computer it does not
| reconnect at logon. The computer in question is a windows xp home edition
| machine.
| It connects to a windows 2000 machine which has a shared printer on it.
| Other computers with windows xp proffesional recconect printer
| automatically.
| Is there some setting that i can reconnect at logon?
|
| tks in advance
| rgds Miki

 

[miki]

sorry for wrong date.

rgds miki

 

[Bigbruva]

Hi Miki

I believe the issue is that the WinXP Home edition PC is not a domain member
(and cannot be) so the host itself will not automatically authenticate with
the domain as a WinXP Pro computer would. This means that when the print
tries to reconnect it cannot automatically pass the users credentials to the
print server.
I used to get around this but running a logon script that mapped a drive to
the print server when the user logged on so the print connection then worked
without prompting the user, but this option has to be used carefully as it
will have security risks. You could try mapping a persistent drive mapping
on the WinXP Home computer using Windows Explorer with the users credentials
on the print server. This would allow the users computer to establish a
connection to the print server. This would then be used when this computer
tries to connect the printer.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

BB

 

[miki]

I am running a network in which when i reboot one computer it does not
reconnect at logon. The computer in question is a windows xp home edition
machine.
It connects to a windows 2000 machine which has a shared printer on it.
Other computers with windows xp proffesional recconect printer
automatically.
Is there some setting that i can reconnect at logon?

tks in advance
rgds Miki