I am on a network, where I am trying to use a shared printer, that is on an XP professional computer (this computer is not the server). Is there anyway that I can save the password in my set up, so that when I logon to the network, I have instant access to this computer. Whenever I restart my computer, I have to go....run \\computer name and then it comes up with a username and password, which I put in, but there is no where to save this

Please help, it is getting really annoying now

There are a few options.

1. Get a domain controller and put the computers in a domain and log in to
it.
Drawback: Expensive and may not be feasible

2. Create a duplicate user account on the machine hosting the printer as
the account that you use to log on to your machine.
Drawback: Password changes will have to be manually synchronized on the
two machines.

3. Put a .bat file in your startup directory that looks like so:
NET USE \\OTHERMACHINE\IPC$ ThePassword
/USER:OTHERMACHINE\AdministrativeAccountOnOtherMach ine

Ray at home

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anyway that I can save the password in my set up, so that when I logon to
the network, I have instant access to this computer. Whenever I restart my
computer, I have to go....run \\computer name and then it comes up with a
username and password, which I put in, but there is no where to save this.

Thanks....I will try the .bat, but I actually am a little useless with that regard.....do I just put that line into a notepad and save it is .bat?

I don't know what to do though, if this is what the computers names are as a silly example

PC with shared printer and windows XP pro......computer name: Charlie password: brow
PC wanting to print to shared printer on Charlies computer, using windows 2000.....computer name: Joe password: soa

How would I create a .bat file with that information??

I have also read something that the person must add a user to their computer. I am not sure which person though, the person trying to print, or the person with the printer on their machine??

Thanks in advance, for this frustrating problem!

The goal here is to pre-authenticate, and to do that, perhaps instead of
trying to net use the ipc$ share, it'd be better to use the print share.

In addition to the info provided below, I'd need to know what the username
is that you use to connect to the other computer. I'll assume that it's
administrator. I'll also assume that the name of the print share is
HPLaserJ

NET USE \\CHARLIE\HPLaserJ brown /user:CHARLIE\administrator

And yes, you'd put that in note pad and save it with a .bat extension. Make
sure you change the "Files of Type" to "all files" while saving this file,
or you'll wind up with a filename like newfile.bat.txt.

As far as what you heard about the other person adding a user to his
machine, this is what I was getting at in option #2. I prefer not to have
to have duplicate accounts on two different machines, personally.

Ray at home

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the person with the printer on their machine???