Access Domain printers from localmachine

[Steven Burnett anonymous]

I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain setup that I
use for my company. I also have a couple other Win2Kpro
machines my kids use sharing the same IP network. The
Win2Kpro computers are members of the CorporateDomain, but
the kids logins are only on the LocalMachine. I want to
grant them access to the Printers in my corporate domain
but would rather not have them login in the Domain

I tried gfranting access rights of the printer to the
LocalMachine's domain but that didnt seem to work. Is
there a simple way around this?

I am also assuming that LPR ports are not available in
Win2Kpro only Win2kServer?

Steve

 

[Jeff Durham]

Here are a couple of things that might work. Neither one is desirable from
a pure security standpoint, but in your case, that may not be an issue. You
could try enabling the guest account in your active directory. Then, make
sure that the printer allows guest access. Another possibility would be to
add user accounts for kids in the domain with the same username and password
they use on the local machine. With this, they should have access to domain
resources.

Jeff