Re: Netserver, printers and NT domains

[Johnny Helms <Johnny.Helms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the windows users name isn't the same as the AS/400 user name, you have 
to set up
netserver as a guest profile.

Johnny Helms

At 05:59 PM 10/18/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>I don't think this has been covered before in the many printer threads.
>I'm trying to allow users to print from PCs (NT4 workstation SP5) to an
>AS/400 printer (V4R3M0).  The printer is shared using Netserver.
>
>On my PC I was able to set up the printer using the network path
>(\\<AS/400\name>\<printer-name>).  On every other PC I've tried, this
>doesn't work (we get an error saying "Could not connect to printer.  The
>printer name is invalid."  All the PCs are in the same NT domain.
>
>On the domain side, I _can't_ see the AS/400 in question in Network
>Neighborhood, though I can see another one that also has NetServer
>shares.  Most of the others can see the one I can see and can't see the
>one with the printers.  On one PC this situation is reversed (and I
>think on that PC were once able to set up the printer connection).
>
>It increasingly seems like this whole NT domains business is a black
>art.
>
>The only other difference I can think of is that I have the same user ID
>and password on Windows as on the AS/400, while the others that I've
>tried don't (but they should be prompted for a logon, right?)  But even
>when I tried creating an AS/400 user profile with the same name and
>password as one of the Windows logons, we _still_ couldn't set up the
>printer.
>
>It's driving me demented.  And we're trying it so we can set the same
>thing up for a client.
>
>Anybody got any ideas?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Martin.
>
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