"D" <NoMail@NoSpam> wrote in message news:c704lh02ppr@news1.newsguy.com...
> Hello, we have a peer to peer at work. All of the machines
> are XP except one is win2000pro and one is win98. The
> win98 machine is not powerful enough to run XP but it does
> the job still with win98.
> Problem is that our network printer server is the win2000pro
> machine. It's set up for "no" password as in "none" as in all users
> have access in the system tools securities tab. And this works as
> said for the XP machines, but the win98 machine always balks
> with the win2000pro and say it must have a password to access
> this network node. It (the win98 node) can see all the XP nodes
> but not the win2000pro print server.
> We've tried giving the win2000pro server a password and then
> using the said password on the win98 node to access but it still
> gives the same ignorant message which leads me to think the win98
> code is giving the message for problems other than just a password
> issue. Does anyone have any info that might help us ???
>
You'll need to add the Win98 user to the W2K machine with the same password
as used on the Win98 box. Then, delete and re-create the printer on the
Win98 box.
JW<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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