On 6 Aug 2006 at 22:01, Bernie Cosell wrote:

> 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].

A long-delayed followup on this: I've found a very simple way that allows 
me to keep "fancy file sharing" enabled and still share the printer: I'm 
running a unix-style LPD on my main computer and connecting to it via an 
LPR local-port on my laptop.

What's cool is that this is all standard windows stuff: you can get the 
LPD by going to add/remove programs/add windows components and it is 
right there [didn't even require my digging out the install CD].  Once I 
got that set up to run automatically (and told zonealarm that it was OK), 
I just configured my laptop with a "local port" of type "LPR", it 
connected right up to my desktop and the whole mess works like a charm.

  /bernie\

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Bernie Cosell                     Fantasy Farm Fibers
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