Networking with XP home

ynotravid

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I have a win2003 server sharing 3 printers. Some of the machines that need to access these printers are XP home machines (that will hopefully be upgraded).

When I first add the printers I am asked for my login/password and there is a check box option to save the info. At that point the printers work great. However once I've turned the machines off and back on access is denied to those printers and there is no obvious way to reauthenticate the user/password.

The XP Pro machines do not have this problem.

I am wondering if there is some local security policy or workaround that can solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.
 

JackMDS

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XP Home is using Simple Sharing only.

If the rest of your Network is set to regular file sharing it might be a problem.

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