Printing to 2000 Professional

[Jeff Kerber]

I am trying to print from an XP home install to a 2000 professional install.
Both are in the same workgroup.

I can not use the shared printer on the 2000 pro machine unless I first log
in to a mapped drive. the mapped drive is setup to reconnect on login and
the password and username is save, but that doesn't happen either. I have to
manually log in to the mapped drive to get the printer access.

Please help!

TIA.

Jeff

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

Is there some reason as to why you don't create your XP Home account (with
appropriate permissions) on the 2K Pro machine?? No username or password
would then be required for file or printer shares.

 

[Jeff Kerber]

I didn't set it up this way... it just asked for username and password. The
only one that works is the one from the 2K machine.


Is there some reason as to why you don't create your XP Home account (with
appropriate permissions) on the 2K Pro machine?? No username or password
would then be required for file or printer shares.

 

[Malke]

I didn't set it up this way... it just asked for username and
password. The only one that works is the one from the 2K machine.


Is there some reason as to why you don't create your XP Home account
(with appropriate permissions) on the 2K Pro machine?? No username or
password would then be required for file or printer shares.

The Windows 2000 machine is looking for authentication of the user
asking for resources (printer). On the Win2k box, make an identical
user account and password that matches the one on the XP box. Look in
your XP's User Accounts applet to see the user accounts if you aren't
sure which one you are logging in as.

Malke

 

[Jeff Kerber]

That did it. Thanks.

I didn't set it up this way... it just asked for username and
password. The only one that works is the one from the 2K machine.


Is there some reason as to why you don't create your XP Home account
(with appropriate permissions) on the 2K Pro machine?? No username or
password would then be required for file or printer shares.

The Windows 2000 machine is looking for authentication of the user
asking for resources (printer). On the Win2k box, make an identical
user account and password that matches the one on the XP box. Look in
your XP's User Accounts applet to see the user accounts if you aren't
sure which one you are logging in as.

Malke

 

[Malke]

That did it. Thanks.

Good. Thanks for taking the time to let us know.

Malke