[dba-Tech] Sharing a printer on a Wireless Network

Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software bchacc at san.rr.com
Mon Sep 27 22:50:43 CDT 2004


Stuart:

I haven't created any users or passwords.  The laptop has a guest user and
me as administrator.  I don't have to give a password because I never
assigned one.  Same on Marsha's box except it fires right up to the desktop,
so perhaps there's no guest account?

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
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Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Sharing a printer on a Wireless Network


> On 27 Sep 2004 at 17:00, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access S wrote:
>
>  Here's an example - I can 'see' my wife's computer 'Marsha' on the
network
> > neighborhood but when I try to access it I get \\Marsha is not
accessible.
> > You might not have permission to use this network resource.  However,
from
> > her machine I can push anything onto mine or pull anything off.
> >
>
> Then the problem is not with networking, it is with user permissions.
> Make sure that all of the machines have the same user/password pairs and
> that you have given those users access rights through the shares.
>
> -- 
> Stuart
>
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