Sharing a printer in a workgroup

[Guest]

I appologize if this is stupid, but here it goes.

I have a workgroup at the public library. All computers are either W2K or
XP. Each user has their own username/password on the computer that they work
on, but not on all the computers. I'm the administrator. I have a user with
a printer attached and shared. I have made the share permissions to everyone
full control. Another user tries to add the printer, and it asks for a
username and password. I can't get anything to work. Does all the users who
connect to that printer have to have a username and password on the target
computer as well as their own PC? I assume it has to be the same username
and password as their local computer? I have tried this on a couple of
occasions, but it rarely works for any length of time. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Bob I]

In this case the permission to use the printer is determined by the list
of users on the computer the printer is attached to. So yes if you want
them to have permission to use the printer you need to give them
specific permission to the printer OR "make them a user on the PC it's
attached to".

 

[Bob I]

Also, in a workgroup, if they change their password on "their" PC they
need to change it on the "printer PC"