This is one of two possibly linked threads – just in case they are related. The other is “Networked printer has gone invisible”.
We have a small XP SP3 home network with one printer (HP2600N) on the net and the other (HP1018) on pc#1 via USB. Both run fine from pc#1. pc#2 has been run through the add printer wizard and now offers both printers via pc#1.
Depending on what order the pcs’ have booted, sometime printing from pc#2 simply fails – no messages of any kind and nothing in the printer window. This is fixable, If I go into windows explorer on pc#2 and into the network and select pc#1 I get asked for a password and user name (which is reasonable). Once I supply these, and get network access, printing from pc#2 works – until the next shut down / boot cycle.
What I would like is to be able to build in the password / user name for pc#1 into pc#2’s print access process, or failing that, to have the print process request the password / user name when print requests are made.
