Vista to 2000 Pro - Network Printer Sharing - Help

[d97]

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup network printer sharing off a Windows 2000 Pro machine. I would like to use the Vista machine to connect through the Win 2000 machine for printing (printer connected to win 2000 pc).

I setup the sharing on the printers from the 2000 box. I removed all of the entries in the security permissions and I only kept EVERYONE as FULL RIGHTS. Everything is checked.

I configured the sharing on the vista pc and it worked without any issues but when I shutdown the vista machine and boot it back up, it doesn't work anymore. After I did a reboot, I removed the share and re-added it. It adds fine, prints ok until it reboots. When setting up the share, it prompts me for the username and password of the win2000 box, which is obviously takes otherwise it wouldn't be possible to add. I also checked "save password".

When printing from the vista after a reboot, I get access denied. The win 2000 and router has firewalls built in but I still get the same error and issues once disable. Theres something in the windows authentication process which is denying the printing.

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

 

[linney]

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