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Vista/XP printer sharing

by a5bcap Apr 1, 2007 12:33PM PDT

hi
I have a Windows Vista buissness edtion Desktop with two printers plugged in and I heve enabled printer sharing both on the firewall in windows liveone care and on the network settings. when i try to connect to the printer through the add new printer on my windows xp laptops which are in the same work group it show the work group but no printers if I type in the printer name it asks for password

does Anyone know if i can fix this

thanks

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Usernames

by CraziFuzzy Apr 3, 2007 1:28AM PDT

If it is asking for a password, I believe it is because you need users with the same name on each computer. I think Vista adds user level protection to home networks, but doesn't check anything other than the user name is the same. Try changing the user anme on one to match the other, and see if that solves it.

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