printing across domains

[Guest]

Could any one pour some light on the different possible ways of accessing
printers in a different domain without establishing a trust between the
domains. The
printers in the other domain are accessed over frame relay.

The printers in the other domain are printers connected to workstations with
static IPs via parrell port and shared on their local network.

Thanks

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

You don't state what symptoms you are having or what you have attempted.

However, the usual problem in this kind of situation is getting the user
authenticated by the computer that owns the printer.

On the client computer try this variant of the net use command to get the
user authenticated on the computer that owns the printer. After that, the
user should be able to use the printer in the foreign domain (assuming
there is network connectivity and appropriate name resolution in place):

net use \\TargetComputerName\IPC$ password /UseromainName\UserName

- TargetComputerName is the name of the computer that has the printer as a
Local Printer and has it shared

- DomainName is the Domain Name of which TargetComputerName is a member.
Or, if there is Local user account on the Target Computer, omit the
DomainName\ part

- UserName is the username of a user account that is known on the Target
Computer and that is permitted to use the printer

- password is the password for the UserName account

If you use * instead of password, the user will get prompted for the
password when the command runs.

The command can be put into the All Users or individual User's Start
Menu\Programs\Startup folder if desired.

Sample commands:

net use \\computera\IPC$ * /User:foreigndomainname\Joe

net use \\computerb\IPC$ xyzabc /User:Joe