BTW you did go through this Q&A with me before.  Back in May.  That time
there  was one XP Pro and one XP Home.

If you want to share printers between XP Pro and XP Home without supplying a
password, then enable SFS on XP Pro.

If you want to keep XP Pro w/SFS disabled, then script the NET USE and run
it automatically on logon on XP Home.  Make sure that /persistent:no is in
effect when that command is run.

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\

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