Networking password

You have to have a user ID that is on the box that has the printer. Once you have this everything should work for you.

thuntley is right....have a look at this link
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q139592

another thing that is bad practice in general but ok on a home network is to change the sharing properties to everyone full control and enable the guest account from the local security policy settings on the windows 2000 box and then you would not need a password

You could enable the guest account, But! If you are like everyone else out there you have that computer on the internet? Enabling the guest account would leave you wide open which isn't a good thing. Tobyk I don't think you would do this :)

point taken  ;)

hmmmm, I'm not getting a "userID" prompt, only a prompt for a password.  My home network doesn't use a password (when the network login comes up, my kids know to not enter anything for "password" and just click OK).

Incidentally, when I print to the printer on my Win98 computer, no prompt appears.

That seems all like it should be ok....I presume the kids are logging onto the 98 box. The reason is simply that 2000 as an NT based system has different security than 98. On 98 you can share a computer with no password or choose to authenticate against a domain which you do not have. Win2K only allows you to authenticate against a local computer account or a domain not actually setting a password or having it password free. When you connect with a win2k machine it takes the account that you are logged in as automatically because the 98 machine doesn't have a computer account it will ask for a password that will never work. the same solutions still apply

If any of the boxes are 9x, use the client for M$ networks as the primary logon, and use the same name and password that you use to logon to the w2k box

Well lets see, you don't seem to want to take my advice or Tobyk's advice. Why don't you try what I said what can it hurt. Create a user on your 2000 box and see if it works? Make the ID the same as the NT box ID you use, my guess is it's going to work. (Same user ID and same password)If that doesn't work I'll be surprised.

I've tried your advice to no avail...  but I'm suspecting I left off some important information.

I'm sending a print job from a Win98 machine (that does not have a local printer connected) to a printer connected to my Win2000 machine.  Attempting to set up the printer on the Win98 machine, the problem is that as soon as a click on the Win2000 name to point to the printer I get the "enter network password" login window.

There is no "userID" prompt, only a "password" prompt.  So it sounds like maybe I need to set up a "local user" id on the Win2000 box that matches my Win98 machine name? (That didn't work either.)

Incidently, I seem to have to hunt around to find the "create user account" stuff.  Please verify that I'm in the right location:

 Start/ Settings/ Control_Panel/ Administrative_Tools/ Computer_Management/ System_Tools/ Local_Users_and_Groups/ Users

  Another question:  Where do I go to change my Win2000 userID and password?  (I'm going to try "stevenlewis" advice to have the Win2000 and network userID/password match).

 

To change your password on the w2k box right click the user ID and reset password. As far as all the other comments go their all saying the same thing I have told you. Good luck.