Having problem with users accessing network printer

[Ken]

I have Windows Vista with SP1 installed at home. I am trying to access a
shared printer on a Windows XP SP2 system. Administrator access seems to
work for the printer, but User rights do not seem to work. I have set the
network printer permissions to allow Everyone, Users, and event Guests, but
I am still having problems with the Vista system being able to access the
printer when running in User context.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Mick Murphy]

Have you installed a Vista compatible Printer driver in the vista machine for
the XP's Printer?

 

[Ken]

Yes, I have installed the compatible printer driver. Initially I can
connect if I give it the administrator userid/password, but the odd thing is
that the security permissions for the printer share are open to include
everyone and guests. Once the user logs off, they lose permissions to the
printer even though it still shows up in their printer list.

 

[Malke]

Yes, I have installed the compatible printer driver. Initially I can
connect if I give it the administrator userid/password, but the odd thing
is that the security permissions for the printer share are open to include
everyone and guests. Once the user logs off, they lose permissions to the
printer even though it still shows up in their printer list.

Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not need
to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords
assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just
need to exist and match on all machines. If you wish a machine to boot
directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for
convenience, you can do this. The instructions at this link work for both
XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

In addition to the above, if one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media
Center turn off Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab).

Malke

 

[Ken]

All user accounts on both machines have already been set up to be identical
with same user names and passwords. The only difference is that one
computer is XP Pro (Printer share) and the other is Vista Ultimate.