Need to connect to a shared printer in a domain from out of the domain

8 May 2007 12:25 PM

jtpr

I have a network with all the systems in a domain save 1. This one is
running 2000. While the system itself is a member of the domain, the
logged in user is local. I want to connect it to a printer shared on
another XP Pro system that is both a member of the domain and logged
into by a domain user. The printer is shared to everybody. But I
can't browse it from the 2000 machine nor connect to it with a fully
qualified name. Anybody help me out with how I can do this?

-Jim

8 May 2007 12:47 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

jtpr wrote:

> I have a network with all the systems in a domain save 1. This one is
> running 2000. While the system itself is a member of the domain, the
> logged in user is local. I want to connect it to a printer shared on
> another XP Pro system that is both a member of the domain and logged
> into by a domain user. The printer is shared to everybody. But I
> can't browse it from the 2000 machine nor connect to it with a fully
> qualified name. Anybody help me out with how I can do this?
>
> -Jim

Firstly, why can't you have this user log into the domain, instead of a
local workstation?
That said, the user can connect to the printer if he/she provides
credentials. However, if the Win2k computer can't browse to the WinXP
computer or connect to it using \\computername, you've got some name
resolution problems - DNS and perhaps also WINS. Compare an ipconfig /all
from both computers. No public IPs should show up - your internal DNS server
should be the only one listed, NetBIOS over TCP/IP must be enabled, and if
you run WINS, the WINS server IP should be in there.