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Vista and XP network printing problem

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ginfest

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I have a small home network with Vista Ultimate on 2 machines and XP Media center on the third. The printer is attached to one of the Vista machines via USB
My problem is with one of the user accounts on the XP machine being unable to access the printer. The XP machine has 2 users, both "Admins", the first user can print, the second can't!
All permissions are the same (AFAIK) but there is no printer listed when the 2nd user logs, and the detect printer option doesn't see/find the printer. Even manually trying to map the printer just returns a "no printer found...etc" dialog, yet if I then log out user 2 and log in user 1, the printer is there and can be accessed 😕

Any ideas?
 
It doesn't matter whether or not an account is an administrator on a remote machine (XP) -- what could matter is whether or not they're defined in the local (Vista) machine, have the same password, and the necessary privileges.

Vista has another quirk, its UAC, which sometimes prevents administrators for running as administrators. So a safer approach is not to rely on administrator-level privileges but to ensure that the desired users have them whether or not they're administrators.
 
Thank you, got it sorted 🙂
Your post reminded me to check the "simple" things, the second user had no account on the Vista/Printer machine while the first did. I set up a limited account for that user et viola, it prints!
thanx again
 
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