Thanks for posting this. I am pretty sure it was enabling the guest account
that got this going. The Network tool that you run when setting up your
network is supposed to activate this account (if you selected sharing files
or printers)
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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"gladiator" wrote in message
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This is absolutely amazing. A bit after posting the previous, I resumed
my attempts to resolve the issue. Finally, after 56 days, It works.
Here's what I did...unfortunately, two things were involved at the same
time and I am not sure what about the combination fixed the problem, but
I AM SURE one of the two parts is an absolute requirement.
First, I noticed on the XP Home printer sharing machine, in the
printers folder were TWO "printers" pointing to the LPT1 port. This
happened along the way when I re-ran the Samsung print driver install
exe again to be sure I had the very latest driver. That put the second
printer into the folder. So I had two, one named PRINTER (I had renamed
that one long ago from whatever it was initially) --also shared as
PRINTER. This was the one I had been trying to connect to. The second
one was named SAMSUNG and was shared as SamsungM.
Second, in reading somewhere tonight (sorry I don't remember where) I
read that XP sharing was always done internally using the 'guest'
account.
(Web search for [xp sharing "guest account"] and you can read about xp
sharing.) It described a method of activating the guest account
without having it appear on the login page, namely, to enter at a
command prompt:
*net user guest /active:yes* (no spaces in the /active:yes)
I did that.
Went to the Vista machine, opened properties for the single printer
there--named however the Samsung installer did it, and
clicked the Ports tab,
Add Port,
selected local port type,
typed in the \\printservername\sharename (*\\owner-HP\SamsungM*)
clicked the "OK"'s
and it took it!!! I did not get the "Windows cannot connect to the
printer. Access is denied" message like all the times before! Printed
a doc. It worked! Hallelujah! I said a prayer of thanks.
To help isolate what fixed it, I went back to the XP machine and
inactivated the guest account (net user guest /active:no). Vista
machine would not print. "net user guest /active:yes" on the XP
brought printing capability back.
Summary: I do not know what role using the second printer installation
had in this (it should have been identical to the first one), but I am
convinced that the guest account MUST BE ACTIVATED as part of the
solution to this issue.
Also, bear in mind I have done many unsuccessful things over the past
56 days, and some of those I did not back out, like changing
permissions on the spool folder and contents. It is conceivable one or
more of the other changes I made played a part in the ultimate success.
I'm saying I don't guarantee that the net user thing is all that is
required for the fix, but I am sure it is a necessary part.
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gladiator
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