[geeks] Windows 7 File & Printer Sharing Nightmare

[David Brownlee]

On 7 January 2015 at 18:53, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/01/2015 15:11, Nick B wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to guess winbind, but I tend to blame winbind when normal diags
>> fail me on windows.
>> Nick
>
> It certainly sounds like that might be it, nothing that references the
> Windows share name works, file sharing, printing, browsing share names... It
> has that air of being something like a nameserver failure. The only thing
> that is not consistent with that is one serving PC asks some workstations
> for a user/password when you try to connect from some PCs, like it's
> forgotten I turned the option off.
>
> I am stuck for solutions, though. Rebooting either or both PCs sometimes
> works, but sometimes it doesn't. I also don't turn the office PCs on in the
> morning so I don't know what order they are being booted up in and if that
> effects it.

Buy a couple of cheap network printer server boxes and connect each
machine direct to the 'network printer's?

If the printers are close to each other you can get boxes which can
manage two or more printers at the same time