Recent content by barbarian

What's weird is that password protected sharing is (and always has been) disabled on both machines. Seems counter intuitive to me . . . however, can't argue with results. Account passwords are required. Barbarian

I was able to get this resolved and i thought I would pass this along for the benefit of others. After perusing the official Microsoft Win7 support site I ran across a person that had a similar issue. He was trying to grant account owner access (to their own account - not some else's shared...

Sorry for the confusion - I'll try to clarify. There are two machines and one printer. The printer is connected by USB cable to the Vista machine. I am trying to print from the Win7 laptop (over the wireless router) to the printer that is USB'd to the Vista machine. There are 3 user accounts...

Just for grins I logged onto my wifes account - from WordPad I could see that the printer installed. When I tried to print I got a 'print error' message on the printer queue screen and nothing printed. As you suggested i went to printer/properties/security and found that the print allow...

The user names are identical on both machines (account is not password protected). As a sidebar, I originally set up this user on the Win7 machine with a different account name. To work around the issue of this user not being able to print from Win7 machine, I changed the account name of this...

I think we are getting close! I (account administrator) was able to install the printer and print from the Win7 machine. Cool! Now, if I could just get other users to be able to print from the Win7 machine. I tried printing from WordPad and Firefox (as another user - not from my account). With...

Thanks for the reply. Made some progress by using the same password on the Win7 and Vista desktop machines (previously I had same user name on both machines but different passwords). I no longer get prompted for user name and password when i double click the Vista desktop icon from the Win 7...

Hi everyone, New guy here. Just purchased an HP laptop with Windows 7 - 64 bit. Also have an HP desktop running Vista home premium 32 bit and a Toshiba laptop running Vista home premium 32 bit. The router is Netgear WGR614v7. I am trying to share a Canon printer that is connected (USB) to the...