Re: Connecting to printer always asks for username/password..

From: Hans-Georg Michna (hans-georgNoEmailPlease_at_michna.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:54:21 +0200

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:14:48 -0400, "Aloke Prasad"
<aprasad123@columbus.rr.invalid> wrote:

>I added "Users" group to the access control list for the printer. The other
>users are members of "Users".
>
>"A simpler alternative is to give the Everyone group the right to
>print, then the user account wouldn't even be needed here."
>
>The odd thing is that "Everyone" group already had access to the printer.
>Despite that, they had to log-on to my PC to connect to the printer ...

Aloke,

I understand the problem is solved now, which is good.

As to the Everyone group, that works by using the Guest account
to log on. Classic file sharing always automatically tries a
second access through the Guest account when the user account
does not have sufficient access rights.

The reason why Everyone doesn't work for you is that the Guest
account logon also failed. Possible causes are:

* Guest account disabled.
* Guest account logon not allowed through a group policy.
* Anonymous logon restricted through the RestrictAnonymous key
in the registry.

Details are described in http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm. You
can search the document for "Guest account", for "policy", and
for "RestrictAnonymous" to find the details.

Hans-Georg 

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