Printing on local network

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Why not get a Printer Server device (separate or part of a router). Then
anyone can print without the 'main' PC being on.
best wishes

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Bernard V Liengme
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"Mats" <mnews@sjoberg.net> wrote in message
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>I recently purchased a new computer and have reconfigured my home network
>in such a way that on my main computer I only have an account for myself
>and my wife (not the kids). On the other 3 computers I have an account for
>every family member. Our only printer is also connected to the main
>computer. In the past I had all our accounts on every computer and never
>had a problem printing to the printer on the main computer from any
>account. Now with this new configuration I can not print from our kids
>accounts from two of the computers I would really appreciate if someone
>could give me some pointers of what I can do to fix this problem. If this
>is of an importance, the kids accounts are Limited.
>
> This is what I have tried and concluded so far:
>
> 1) Two of the computers have XP Pro installed (one of them the main
> computer) and the other two XP Home. I can print from our kids account
> from the computer that have XP Pro installed. One difference I can see is
> the network printer configuration that is seems like XP picked up
> automatically. On the XP Home computers the printer is using a port with
> the name of "\\Computername\Printername" and the description field says
> "Local Port". On the XP Pro computer on the other hand the port name is
> "TS001" and the description field says "COMPUTERNAME: PRN2".
>
> So I am guessing if I know how to configure a TS port, this should solve
> the problem.
>
> 2) I have tried to add different groups and users to the printer security
> tab and open up all permissions but with no success.
>
> 3) Do I need to change something in the local policies or change any other
> type of configuration if configuring a TS port on a XP Home system does
> not work or is nor enough?
>
> 4) Lastly, something that actually do work is that if I add accounts to
> the main computer for my kids, I can print from all the computers. It just
> seems funny that I have to have an account on the computer where the
> printer is connected to that matches the account on the computer I am
> printing from. Is this a XP Home limitation or can I manually configure a
> TS port as described in (1) to get around this problem?
>
>
> Thanks for any help in this matter....Mats
>