Simple Printer SHARE Question 'Access Denied'

[Jay Bollyn]

This is a really simple question regarding setting up a shared printer on a win2k3 server. We are not using domains or AD. All clients are winXP.

We generally use either Novell NDPS printing or direct TCP/IP printing. I am setting up a few printer Shares on a win2k3 server(10.133.120.92), mainly as a learning experience.

All the printers have JetDirects. I have installed the printer on the server using the TCP/IP port, and shared it out with default settings. I can print from the server.

(We are not using IPX, so we need to connect using \\IPaddress, not \\computername.)

On the client PC, using the Add Printer wizard, I added the network printer by pointing directly to \\10.133.120.92\sharename. I was prompted for userid/passwd in a dialog box, so I provided an administrator account which is defined on the server. I was able to print a test page from the client PC at that point.

When I logged off and back on with the local client account, I get status 'access denied' in the Printer folder.

I guess there is an authorization step that I have missed. Do I need to create an account on the server, which matches the local account on the client PC?

What do I need to do, to get this working?

Thanks for any info.

:-) Jay

[Steven Clementi · Accepted solution]

Jay:

I think you need to create an account, named the same as your local XP account. I sometimes have to swap accounts when home using my win2kpro laptop to get access to my network resources. The laptop is NOT part of the domain, but as soon as I start using the same credentials locally as what they are on the server... it works just fine.


Additionally.. IPX does not give you the ability to browse or attach by computer name.. "\\computername\sharename"... NETBIOS does and that usually runs over TCP/IP. The reason you might not be able to get to \\sevrername.... but easily get to \\ipaddress is because your local computer probably does not know how to resolve the computer name. (Usually a DNS/WINS related issue and it really doesn't pertain to the problem here so I will stop babbling now...)




Steven

[Jay Bollyn]

Thanks Steven,

It is working this morning. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong yesterday. I think perhaps you need to login to the server with the new account at least once.

We are not using NetBIOS either, which is what I should have said earlier. So browsing does not work on my network. Neither does \\computername\sharename. What does work is \\IPaddress\sharename.

:-) Jay

[Jay Bollyn]

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