You must provide a password to access a shared resource on XP Pro which is not operating with Simple File Sharing (SFS).
That *doesn't* mean the user must be prompted to type any password. All you need is a connection to the print server, and a connection can be made and password supplied without involving the user. See NET USE /? Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernie Cosell Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Sharing a printer without a password I think I've asked this before, but if so I don't remember [or didn't implement..:o)] the answer. On my main system: XP/Pro, two accts, admin w/password, random user/limited, no password. AND: I have "guest accounts" *enabled*. I would like to share that system's printer with the other computers around her [my and my wife's laptops and my wife's desktop, at the least]. So far, I cannot find a way to do that that doesn't seem to require that I go through a dialogue that asks me for my admin password. Is that inevitable [if so, that's a *REAL* shame and would make this windows setup the ONLY such system I've ever seen that won't let you set up a simple print-server!]? Or [more likely] do I have something amiss. I'm happy to "start over" on my desktop system if there's some incantation or something that'll make this work beter: in addition to the printer I also have two filesystems shared, and I don't really mind that I need my admin password to "mount" one of them, but there, too: it'd be nice to make a "public" filesystem available to the other systems on my at-home LAN, but, again, I don't see how to share-filesystem-without- password [so if you iknow how to do THAT, too, that'd be great! :o)] Thanks! /Bernie\ -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
