Shared printer issue

[Bikpik]

Here's the problem.

Windows XP network:
3 PCs, 1 printer
PC1 (Dell GX280) has the printer hooked up to it by USB.
PC2 (Dell GX280) an exsisting PC
PC3 (Dell Optiplex 755) a new PC put in.

PC1 and PC2 can printer fine.
1 user on PC3 cannot print. The job is sent to PC1 print spooler and just hangs there, which in turn holds up the jobs from PC1 and PC2.

A new user logs into PC3 and can print. the user with the problems on PC3 can go to either PC1 or PC2 and print fine.

The printer was added to PC2 and PC3 by browsing to PC1 and connecting to the shared printer.

Steps taken so far:
Gave the "Everyone" group full rights to the Printer.
Gave the "Everyone" group full rights to the spooler folder.
Gave the user with the problem admin rights to PC1(can't give everyone full admin rights to the PC1)
Recreated the user's profile on PC3.
Reinstalled the Printer (with new drivers from HP)

Only way i could get it to work, was to put in a "switch" and give the printer an IP address

Any ideas on why this wouldn't work?

[guartz]

Had a similar issue with a brother scanner.

Had 2 pcs, and 4 users. One user couldn't connect to the scanner for some reason.

I think I fix'd it by renaming or deleting that user's account.... can't remember for sure

[Day]

Yeah that would be a good thing to try, either remake their account, or rename their profile folder on PC3 and let them start a new profile on that machine, see if problem persists.

[Bikpik]

Yeah that would be a good thing to try, either remake their account, or rename their profile folder on PC3 and let them start a new profile on that machine, see if problem persists.

Done that, still no change.

[Cephius]

Does the user's profile on PC3 have a password associated with it? Do the other two?

[Bikpik]

Does the user's profile on PC3 have a password associated with it? Do the other two?

Yes, all 3 are setup the same, all are on an AD network.

[Cephius]

No idea why it wouldn't work. Printer sharing in XP has always been pretty shitty though, IMO. Why not put the printer itself on your network like you said and use it that way?

[Bikpik]

No idea why it wouldn't work. Printer sharing in XP has always been pretty shitty though, IMO. Why not put the printer itself on your network like you said and use it that way?

We run a managed network where I work, we try to only use managed cicso switches when we can. There was a lack on network drops in the area where this office was setup, and to get one put in would take a few months (gotta love working for the Government). But in order to get it to work, we made an exception and put a 5 port linksys box in there to get him up and running.

edit: I was just wondering if anyone ever had an issue like this before, so I wouldn't have to put a "switch" in, in the future

[virusiidx]

Check the firewall on that specific account maybe? I had a similar issue, but with a network printer. All PC's were able to print/connect, except one, at least until I saw the firewall was disallowing it for some reason.

[Bikpik]

Check the firewall on that specific account maybe? I had a similar issue, but with a network printer. All PC's were able to print/connect, except one, at least until I saw the firewall was disallowing it for some reason.

I never checked that, but the 3 PCs "SHOULD" have the firewall setup the same. I'll take a look, thanks.