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Windows 7 Professional & sharing printers

i recently installed 4 identical computers that are running Windows 7 Professional (64 bit).  The computers are in the same workgroup.  All but one of the computers can access the shared printer via a standard user account.  

When I try to get to the 'shared' printer over the network, I'm asked for username and password.  The user accounts (standard and admin) are indentical on all four systems.  However, I get a 'credential failure' message.  Have also checked to make sure that password sharing is NOT selected on the host computer.  Not of the other computers ask for a password when I linked to the shared printer.  If I use an admin account on the suspect computer, I'm able to connect to the printer and use it without any problem.

I had a similar issue with Win XP Pro but resolved it once I realized password sharing was enabled on the host computer.

What am I missing here?
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are they all setup the same in the network and sharing centre ?

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same network, same home group.
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Have you created a password for this user?

Windows 7 especially forces you to create password so that it can authenticate.

When you leave it as no password things like this will happen.

So my suggestion is to create the password and make sure that they are all the same for that user in all 4 computers and try again :D
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All computers are in the same workgroup/home group.

Password issue:
  - The remaining two computers are able to access the printer without using any type of password and they are 'standard' accounts as well.
  - Passwords aren't practical as the computers are meant to be used by the general public.  Don't want them dealing with passwords.  NOTE:  my admin account on the computers is password protected.

Any other thoughts?
Well as mentioned it's really hard to avoid not using the password since Vista,

if you are referring to when user logs in you don't want them to type the password there are lots of auto login application you could use. Without a password it's really a pain to get it working.

Even the home group in windows 7 give you a 'code' to get it working correctly. I strongly suggest to set a password.
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Not certain what changed to make the computer to be able to use the shared printer.  Didn't make any of the suggested changes nor did I do anything else on my own.