Problem trying to share a printer btwn w2k and 98SE

[Plester]

i recently set up a small lan (5 machines total) 4 of which run 98SE and 1 runs win2k. there is a local printer attached to the win2k machine that one of the 98SE machines needs to print to. i have setup file and and print sharing on the win2k machine as well TCP/IP and it is in the same workgroup and the printer is 'shared'. problem i that the 98SE machine sees the win2k but when i try and setup the printer by browsing for it over the network, i am prompted for a password and the only password i set up on the win2k (logged on as the administrator) doesn't work. i know that this is a simple fix, but it is beyond me.

 

[minendo]

Set up an account on the Win2k machine for the 98 machine to connect as. This can be done by going to the User Accounts option within the Control Panel. The account name should just be the computer name of the 98 machine and then just set any password you want.

 

[Cooky]

From my past experience of trying to do exact same thing, I ended up having to make both the win2k and 98 on the same domain so that when 98 tries to gain access of any resource on the win2k box it can get authenticated by providing BOTH user name and password.

I bet right now your machines are on a workgroup instead of a domain so when you connect to 2K from 98 you aren't offerred a space to put in the username but just password. I guess you can work around w/ what minendo suggested but I didn't know it would work...

minendo-so the 2K box would just take 98's machine name as the username when it tries to connect??

 

[ivwshane]

I know you can do this without being on a domain but I've never done it the way minendo suggested.

If you do it his way please post if it worked or if it didn't.

Thanks

 

[burnedout]

In the past, I've set up a number of machines at one of our locations using the same method minendo suggests. This can be easily accomplished on a basic peer-to-peer network provided the Win98 boxes run Client for Microsoft Networks and are in the same workgroup as the Win2K box.

 

[Cooky]

ivwshane - what was the method that you used??

 

[ivwshane]

I use an HP jet direct😛

 

[Cooky]

Originally posted by: ivwshane
I use an HP jet direct😛

What the heck, then of course it works but in Plester's situation the printer is not a network printer but directly/locally attached to the 2K box.

 

[ivwshane]

Yes but I have done it the other way as well but just not by giving a computer access but rather the user.

 

[Night201]

Do you have a software firewall installed on the win2k machine (like zonealarm)? If so, exit ZoneAlarm and try to print. Let me know if that step works.

If that works, then you're firewall is blocking connection from your internal network. Try adding an ip range of the ip addresses into the trusted zone settings in Zonealarm.