Re: How do I connect a network printer to my XP system?

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From: Larry Woods (larry_at_NOSPAMlwoods.com)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 07:54:20 -0700

Thanks, Malke,

I should be able to take it from here. Sorry for the "Hardheadedness" but I
am really getting tired of moving to new O/S's...just about the time that I
get the previous one running effeciently.

Larry Woods

"Malke" <malke@nospoonnotreally.com> wrote in message
news:e%23t1BcLqEHA.3244@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Larry Woods wrote:
>
> > It is a router: Linksys Wireless Router. I have assigned static IP's,
> > though. I'll respond with the additional info later, but...
> >
> > Are you telling me that if I log onto the XP computer as "Sam" that I
> > need a
> > user defined as "Sam" on my Win 2000 computer, with printer? And, if
> > I have defined a second user on my XP system, say "Bill", then I also
> > need a user
> > defined as "Bill" on my Win 2000 computer? And, could you point me to
> > a good source to try to understand why XP is so complicated to setup
> > while I have my Win 2000 computer "jabbering" to each other with NO
> > problems,
> > including sharing printers, etc. And these computers are logged in
> > using different user names.
> >
> Yes, in a workgroup setup Win2k needs to have all user accounts with
> identical passwords created. It needs to authenticate the users asking
> to access resources, and that's how it is done in Win2k in a workgroup
> (as opposed to a domain, which you don't need). You don't need to be
> logged in as the same user on all computers, of course, but you do need
> those users to be in the Win2k system. You probably didn't run into the
> problem before when you were just using Win9x boxen because those
> older, non-NT operating systems don't have real user accounts,
> permissions, etc. More sophisticated operating systems like NT-based
> ones (NT, Win2k, XP) and Linux/Unix do.
>
> XP isn't complicated to set up, and I did give you good sources to
> understand networking. Here they are again, for the third time:
>
> http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/
> http://www.wown.info/
> http://www.practicallynetworked.com/
>
> Smallnetbuilder is particularly good as it is Dr. Tom's site, of the
> famous www.tomshardware.com.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"

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