Home network problem

[Dave Roberts]

Hi

I am sure this is a fairly simple problem that someone can help me solve. I
have a small home network of three computers. Two of the computers are hard
wried to a wireless router and the third is a wireless notebook. Initially
both hard wired machines were running Win98 and the notebook was running
Win2K professional. One of the hard wired machines has shared printers. This
network has been running successfully for many months with printing
available from all machines.

I recently decided to upgrade the machine with the shared printers to run
Win2K Pro. Now I cannot print from the other hard wired machine running
Win98. It requests that I logon to the network which I never had to do in
the past and as a result have no idea what the network password might be. I
can still print from the notebook (also running win2K Pro) without being
asked for a network password.

Can anyone suggest what is wrong here? Thanks for any and all help.

Dave
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[Phillip Windell]

Win98 does open sharing (no authentication) Win2k/XP do not. Create
accounts on the Win2k machines that match what you are logging into the
Win98 box with (same name and password). Then grant the account access to
the Printer. If you don't know what is used on the Win98 boxes, then just
delete any *.pwl files you find on the machines then log off and back on
again,...it will create new *.pwl files for the names/passwords you give it.
These are what it presents to the win2k box when you try to print and this
is what you must match when you create the matching account on the Win2k
boxes.

 

[Dave Roberts]

Win98 does open sharing (no authentication) Win2k/XP do not. Create
accounts on the Win2k machines that match what you are logging into the
Win98 box with (same name and password). Then grant the account access to
the Printer. If you don't know what is used on the Win98 boxes, then just
delete any *.pwl files you find on the machines then log off and back on
again,...it will create new *.pwl files for the names/passwords you give it.
These are what it presents to the win2k box when you try to print and this
is what you must match when you create the matching account on the Win2k
boxes.

Phillip

Thank you so much. Got the network printing again. Thanks so much for
your help.

Dave