Printer sharing? (W2K)

[piercno]

Hello,
My win2000 machine wants to share its printer with my daughter's old win95 machine. File sharing & internet sharing work fine. But she can't see the shared printer in Network Neighborhood. Would appreciate any ideas. Thanks.

[POBrien]

Login as Admin on 2000

Go to Administrative tools in control panel
Computer management
Local users and groups
users
Open the Guest account
uncheck the Account is disabled option

Close Computer Management

Next,

While in Admin tools..
Launch Local Security Policy
Navigate too Local Policy/User Rights Assignment
(In the right hand pane) Open
Access this computer from the network >> Add in the guest account
Deny Login Locally >> Remove the guest account
Logon on Locally >> Make sure the guest account is added

Close Local Security Policy

go to the printers folder/shared printer

Add the Guest account (full control) to the permissions list for the shared printer.



Reboot the machine

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