I have a Brother MFC7420 attached to my Vista Home Basic, and its shared.
I also enabled the Guest acc on this machine without password.

On the same network, I have a WinXP machine. I added the MFC7420 to this
machine, and they asked my for a username & password. I keyed in Guest and
blank for pwd, and it all worked.

But every evening, we shut down the machines. Next day, although the printer
is visible on the WinXP, nothing prints.

I then delete the printer on the WinXP, Add Printer again, key in the
username/pwd again, and it starts working again.

Do I have to do this everytime? It doesn't make sense !

Hitesh wrote:

I have a Brother MFC7420 attached to my Vista Home Basic, and its shared.
I also enabled the Guest acc on this machine without password.

On the same network, I have a WinXP machine. I added the MFC7420 to this
machine, and they asked my for a username & password. I keyed in Guest and
blank for pwd, and it all worked.

But every evening, we shut down the machines. Next day, although the
printer is visible on the WinXP, nothing prints.

I then delete the printer on the WinXP, Add Printer again, key in the
username/pwd again, and it starts working again.

Do I have to do this everytime? It doesn't make sense !

Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not need
to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords
assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just
need to exist and match on all machines. If you wish a machine to boot
directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for
convenience, you can do this. The instructions at this link work for both
XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

Once you do this, you'll no longer be asked for a username/password when you
connect to the XP box.

Malke
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MS-MVP
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