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[stillerz]

Hi,

I have mapped the printer share as \\{ip address}\lp and printed a document successfully.  But, when I logout and log back in, I can't get anything to print unless I delete the printer and re-create the mapping.

It is almost as if windows (vista) can't save the login credentials username/password and the only way to re-login is to recreate the share where i can enter the username and password again.

Has anyone else experienced this?  Is there a better config that I should use?

I'm running the latest beta v1.08

Thanks!

[gunrunnerjohn]

I have a Canon MF3110 connected to my DNS-323, and my Vista Ultimate desktop or the Vista Home Premium laptop have no problem after restarting.  None of the other XP or Windows 7 machines have any issues either.  That's worked since the early firmware versions right through the current beta version.

[stillerz]

Thanks for the reply.  I think this is some combination of configuration problems.  Here's what I found:

When I changed the username on the DNS-323 to match the username on my Vista machine, and changed the group name on the DNS-323 to match the Vista computer name, as long as the passwords were the same both on the DNS-323 and the Vista machine, there was no problem.  The Vista user automatically logged in to all shared drives and the printer.

So for example, if the computer name was "ATHENA", I made the group in the DNS "ATHENA", and the user was "Suzanne" in Vista, the user was "Suzannne" on the DNS-323, and set the passwords to the same on both, then no problem.

But, what I'd really like is for the printer share "lp" to be accessible to all users without passwords.  That way other laptops or guests can print without having to either have a username or enter a password.

It seems that the DNS-323 is requiring a password even for this share, because if there is a mismatch in the names or passwords it doesn't connect when the Vista user re-logs in.  For example, I have another account on the same Vista machine with no password on it.  The DNS-323 forces you to create a password when you create a new user, so when that user logs into windows it can't connect automatically to the DNS.

I'm wondering if it is because when I first configured the users and groups on the DNS, I deleted the original pre-configured shares for Volumes 1 & 2?  Any ideas on how to make that "lp" share available to anyone and everyone?

Right now I'm considering using login scripts for each account with a NET USE batch file, but I'd rather not since that doesn't work for other systems like my other laptop and guests.

Thanks!

[gunrunnerjohn]

I wonder if this changed when D-Link made the change so anonymous accounts and passworded ones didn't work together?  I must admit, since that change, I arranged it so all the machines could login to the D-Link, so I probably didn't see this if that's the issue.

[stillerz]

Sounds like that's the case.

If so, I'd call this a bug.  Why can't I have some things under password control and other things public/anonymous?