File and printer sharing disable when restart 1

[mchio]

I'm trying to share a printer connected to a PC via USB. I did it sucessfully enabling the file and printer sharing exception.

But for some reason each time I restart the computer the "file and printer sharing" exception option is disabled.
Then I have to enable it manually.

Someone has an idea what is causing this?

 

[linney]

Any Group Policy coming into play?

Any clues in this Registry location?

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network

Are there any entries that mention NoPrintSharing or NoFileSharing?

What is going on in your Event Viewer?

 

[Rick998]

Have a look at

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/instanttrack/xp-printing/index.html

for a good explanation about how to make the printer share persist.

Hope this helps...

 

[mchio]

Thanks a lot for your replies.

As linney suggest I verified for some group policy, some entries in the registry and the event viewer but I didn't found any problems.

What I did once I read Rick998 post, insert a command "netsh firewall ..." in the autoexec.nt to enable the sharing.

It's working.