Re: XP pro & home printer sharing without password

Hi Mike,

An alternative is to share your printer off your XP Home computer, and use
"Simple File Sharing" there.

Best Wishes,
Kurosh


"ma" wrote:

I was afraid of that.

Thanks

Mike


"Kurosh" <Kurosh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you don't want to use "Simple File Sharing", then you need to
explicitly
give permissions to users for access to anything that you share. One way
to
do this is to ensure that the same user account / password exists on both
computers. Authentication on your Win XP Pro computer will be automatic
when
that user connects to anything shared. Whatever files you want that
person
to access you need to specifically grant access to. Same goes for the
printer.

If you don't want to grant access to certain things, you simply set up
multiple user accounts on both computers, and give access to each account
on
your Win XP Pro computer as you wish.

Best Wishes,
Kurosh


"ma" wrote:

Hi there.
I am pretty sure this has come up before, but for
the life of me googling didn't help.

I have 2 PCs one XP pro & the other XP home.
I have shared printer connected to Pro.

File sharing works fine. Printer sharing is also
working but every time I have to use Windows Explorer
connect to Pro, asks for user ID & password, I type
those in and can see files shared, then I can print from XP
home. Other wise print job fails.

On the pro, I have not checked "simple file... sharing", and
I don't like to do so if I don't have to.

Also the "guest" account is disabled.

Is there any option to print from XP Home without having
to go through Windows Explorer authentication first?
(Just print jobs only).

I still would like to keep password & id requirement for files.

Thanks in advance.

Mike







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