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Windows Forum / Windows 95 / April 2004Repost: Use a printer connected to a 2000 machine from 95?
Hi, I thought I'd try this again since I'm at the location again today. Here was my original post: Food service operation with 2 cash register terminals. Older 98 machine bit the dust and bought a new fancy 2000 machine to replace it. The other terminal has 95 still on it. The 2000 machine has a printer connected to the kitchen via a Comm port. The Comm port has an adapter to accept the direct CAT 5 cable leading from the kitchen. This is the only way to print to the kitchen. Set up everything this morning and printing is OK from the 2000 machine. Set up the printer to be shared and gave full permissions everywhere. I can't, however, use this printer from the other 95 cash register. If I go through the printer wizards and browse through the network to the 2000 machine it immediately asks for a password with the statement something like: \\Counter\IPC$ Every password I try does not work. I get the same message if I try to map a network drive to the 2000 machine's C drive even though there are Full permissions for everybody. I realize 95 had virtually no security and 2000 has a LOT of security built-in, but is there ANYWAY I can use the printer attached to the 2000 machine, as well as it's C drive from the 95 machine? Any work-arounds besides upgrading? The 95 machine's components can't accept anything more I believe. An MVP suggested I create a profile on the 2000 machine with the same User Name/Password combination we use to log into the 95 machine. My problem is we are automatically logged into the 95 machine when we start up! We are not presented with a login screen at all! So how do I find out what the User Name/Password combination is? I know I can just delete the PWL file, but that still won't help me will it? Can I just create a User Name/Password combination on the 95 machine to match the log in profile on the 2000 machine since I already know what that is? I really don't want to mess things up and render one or both cash registers un-usable! So I just want to make sure I do things right. Thanks, Jeff > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > match the log in profile on the 2000 machine since I already know what that > is? YES, provided you log in with that username. As long as you are logged into the W95 machine with a username/password combination that matches a user a/c on the other machine that has access to the printer then the W95 machine will get access to the printer.  SignatureJeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > YES, provided you log in with that username. > > As long as you are logged into the W95 machine with a username/password > combination that matches a user a/c on the other machine that has access to > the printer then the W95 machine will get access to the printer. Cool thanks. I will have to test this next Monday when I'm here again before we open for business. Don't want to blow everything up during dinner rush!! One last question: If I just delete any and all PWL files on the 95 machine it *should* ask me to log in next time we boot up the 95 machine, correct? Thanks for the help, Jeff It should. SignatureGlen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > > YES, provided you log in with that username. > > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Thanks for the help, > Jeff Hi Jeff and Glen. Thank you both for the help. OK, I can access the printer connected to the 2000 machine now through the network. Yee-Ha!! Cool. I did not want to delete the PWL file on the 95 machine in case everything went wrong so I simply renamed it. It was Par.pwl so I renamed it to OldPar.xxx and then restarted the machine. The next time it booted up it first gave me the change password screen on top of the User Name/Password one. I hit cancel on the first one and then entered the same User Name and Password as the 2000 machine. It let me in and then I could see the 2000 machine over the network. Everything works OK so far today, but I'm hoping for just a bit more help if I may. I tested it one more time by restarting the machine. It again gave me the change password screen first on top of the User Name/Password screen. I logged in and everything is fine, but I really just want to automate this. As mentioned before we used to not log into the 95 machine at all. I'm guessing this because there was no password?? Or perhaps the seller set it up that way for us to log on with a user called Par. What I'd really like to have happen is if the people here ever have to restart the cash register it automatically logs them in with the correct User Name/Password combination with no intervention. We will most likely not have a keyboard hooked up to the machine (it's a touch screen system) and trying to do all of this in the middle of a lunch/dinner rush would be a pain! So is there some setting I can put in the Control Panel of the 95 machine or somewhere to do this? I've used the Tweak utility before in the past, would this help? I'll be here tomorrow as well so I can play with this in the morning before we open. Thanks again for the help, Jeff It should. SignatureGlen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > > YES, provided you log in with that username. > > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Thanks for the help, > Jeff |
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