Netserver, printers and NT domains

["McCallion, Martin" <MccalliM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all.

I don't think this has been covered before in the many printer threads.
I'm trying to allow users to print from PCs (NT4 workstation SP5) to an
AS/400 printer (V4R3M0).  The printer is shared using Netserver.

On my PC I was able to set up the printer using the network path
(\\<AS/400\name>\<printer-name>).  On every other PC I've tried, this
doesn't work (we get an error saying "Could not connect to printer.  The
printer name is invalid."  All the PCs are in the same NT domain.

On the domain side, I _can't_ see the AS/400 in question in Network
Neighborhood, though I can see another one that also has NetServer
shares.  Most of the others can see the one I can see and can't see the
one with the printers.  On one PC this situation is reversed (and I
think on that PC were once able to set up the printer connection).

It increasingly seems like this whole NT domains business is a black
art.

The only other difference I can think of is that I have the same user ID
and password on Windows as on the AS/400, while the others that I've
tried don't (but they should be prompted for a logon, right?)  But even
when I tried creating an AS/400 user profile with the same name and
password as one of the Windows logons, we _still_ couldn't set up the
printer.

It's driving me demented.  And we're trying it so we can set the same
thing up for a client.

Anybody got any ideas?

Cheers,

Martin.

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