I have Windows Vista with SP1 installed at home. I am trying to access a
shared printer on a Windows XP SP2 system. Administrator access seems to
work for the printer, but User rights do not seem to work. I have set the
network printer permissions to allow Everyone, Users, and event Guests, but
I am still having problems with the Vista system being able to access the
printer when running in User context.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Have you installed a Vista compatible Printer driver in the vista machine for
the XP's Printer?
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Ken" wrote:

I have Windows Vista with SP1 installed at home. I am trying to access a
shared printer on a Windows XP SP2 system. Administrator access seems to
work for the printer, but User rights do not seem to work. I have set the
network printer permissions to allow Everyone, Users, and event Guests, but
I am still having problems with the Vista system being able to access the
printer when running in User context.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Yes, I have installed the compatible printer driver. Initially I can
connect if I give it the administrator userid/password, but the odd thing is
that the security permissions for the printer share are open to include
everyone and guests. Once the user logs off, they lose permissions to the
printer even though it still shows up in their printer list.


"Mick Murphy" wrote in message
...
Have you installed a Vista compatible Printer driver in the vista machine
for
the XP's Printer?
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Ken" wrote:

I have Windows Vista with SP1 installed at home. I am trying to access a
shared printer on a Windows XP SP2 system. Administrator access seems to
work for the printer, but User rights do not seem to work. I have set
the
network printer permissions to allow Everyone, Users, and event Guests,
but
I am still having problems with the Vista system being able to access the
printer when running in User context.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Ken wrote:

Yes, I have installed the compatible printer driver. Initially I can
connect if I give it the administrator userid/password, but the odd thing
is that the security permissions for the printer share are open to include
everyone and guests. Once the user logs off, they lose permissions to the
printer even though it still shows up in their printer list.


"Mick Murphy" wrote in message
...
Have you installed a Vista compatible Printer driver in the vista machine
for
the XP's Printer?

"Ken" wrote:

I have Windows Vista with SP1 installed at home. I am trying to access
a
shared printer on a Windows XP SP2 system. Administrator access seems
to
work for the printer, but User rights do not seem to work. I have set
the
network printer permissions to allow Everyone, Users, and event Guests,
but
I am still having problems with the Vista system being able to access
the printer when running in User context.

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

In addition to the above, if one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media
Center turn off Simple File Sharing (Folder OptionsView tab).

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

All user accounts on both machines have already been set up to be identical
with same user names and passwords. The only difference is that one
computer is XP Pro (Printer share) and the other is Vista Ultimate.


"Malke" wrote in message
...
Ken wrote:

Yes, I have installed the compatible printer driver. Initially I can
connect if I give it the administrator userid/password, but the odd thing
is that the security permissions for the printer share are open to
include
everyone and guests. Once the user logs off, they lose permissions to
the
printer even though it still shows up in their printer list.


"Mick Murphy" wrote in message
...
Have you installed a Vista compatible Printer driver in the vista
machine
for
the XP's Printer?

"Ken" wrote:

I have Windows Vista with SP1 installed at home. I am trying to access
a
shared printer on a Windows XP SP2 system. Administrator access seems
to
work for the printer, but User rights do not seem to work. I have set
the
network printer permissions to allow Everyone, Users, and event Guests,
but
I am still having problems with the Vista system being able to access
the printer when running in User context.

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

In addition to the above, if one or more of the computers is XP Pro or
Media
Center turn off Simple File Sharing (Folder OptionsView tab).

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!