Stuck - Vista Home Premium Shared Printer Problem

I set up 7 new Dell computers with Vista Home Premium at a local community
center. All are configured as private networks with printer sharing and
password protected sharing Off. Only one computer has a shared HP printer.
Six of the Dell computer have two user accounts. One is the administer
account name Admin with a password. The other is a user account (AllUsers)
with no password. The seventh computer is configured with only an administer
account with a different password than the other six computerd in the
workgroup.

The shared printer in automatically detected on the six computer with the
identical accounts and printing is fine. The seventh computer with only the
admin account can see all of the work group computers. But when trying to
connect to the computer with the shared printer, a logon password and user
name is requested. Even though password protected sharing is off. By typing
in the AllUsers name I can then connect and use the printer. However, the
ability to print is lost when logging off. When logging on again, the
printer is still listed as connected, but will not print.

Is there a way to maintain the shared printer functionality between logoff,
logon sessions? Or a better solution to this problem?

Larry Hunter wrote:
> I set up 7 new Dell computers with Vista Home Premium at a local community
> center. All are configured as private networks with printer sharing and
> password protected sharing Off. Only one computer has a shared HP printer.
> Six of the Dell computer have two user accounts. One is the administer
> account name Admin with a password. The other is a user account (AllUsers)
> with no password. The seventh computer is configured with only an administer
> account with a different password than the other six computerd in the
> workgroup.
>
> The shared printer in automatically detected on the six computer with the
> identical accounts and printing is fine. The seventh computer with only the
> admin account can see all of the work group computers. But when trying to
> connect to the computer with the shared printer, a logon password and user
> name is requested. Even though password protected sharing is off. By typing
> in the AllUsers name I can then connect and use the printer. However, the
> ability to print is lost when logging off. When logging on again, the
> printer is still listed as connected, but will not print.
>
> Is there a way to maintain the shared printer functionality between logoff,
> logon sessions? Or a better solution to this problem?

Why not simply create another user account on the seventh computer that
matches the one on the computer hosting the printer? If that solves the
problem you're done. Having only one user account on a Vista machine is
a bad idea anyway.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

I may have to do that but would like to avoid doing so if another solution is
available. The seventh computer is user exclusively by one person for office
functions and protected with a strong password.

Larry Hunter wrote:
> I may have to do that but would like to avoid doing so if another solution is
> available. The seventh computer is user exclusively by one person for office
> functions and protected with a strong password.
>
>

I never don't understand why people are reluctant to create additional
user accounts. It doesn't make your computer slower and you don't even
need to use it; having matching user accounts on so few computers is not
a big thing to do and makes networking a breeze. If you don't want to,
that's your choice of course.


Malke

P. S. - Sorry if this posts twice - a bit of trouble with the connection.
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

>
> I never don't understand why people are reluctant to create additional
> user accounts. It doesn't make your computer slower and you don't even
> need to use it; having matching user accounts on so few computers is not
> a big thing to do and makes networking a breeze. If you don't want to,
> that's your choice of course.
>
>
> Malke
>

wow, that's one of the dumbest things I've seen in a long time!

additional user accounts should NOT be needed. the problem is with Vista,
which totally sucks!!!

typical MS-MVP garbage, trying to ignore the defects

twiddly wrote:

> wow, that's one of the dumbest things I've seen in a long time!
>
> additional user accounts should NOT be needed. the problem is with Vista,
> which totally sucks!!!
>
> typical MS-MVP garbage, trying to ignore the defects
>

No, your post was written by someone who obviously doesn't understand
operating systems. The advice I gave for Windows applies to my Linux and
OS X systems also. It is foolish to have only one user account. It is
you who is spewing ignorant garbage. If you knew anything about MVPs you
would know that none of us works for Microsoft and many of us -
including me - don't even use Windows and/or have mixed operating system
networks.

But it doesn't matter what you think - I won't see any of your posts
again anyway. You're not worth the time.

*plonk*


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

No, you are ignoring the issue. The problem is with Vista, for no good
reason, not working properly with one account. Your solution is to ignore
the Vista defect and work around it with another user account. That should
NOT be necessary.

And get a _real_ website fer chrissakes. Your site would have been
considered ultra lame back in the 90's much less now. I wouldn't trust
someone with a website like elephantboycomputers.com to do _anything_ as this
is a reflection of your expertise (or lack thereof).

*plonk* yourself -- LOL