Logged onto that account, went into File Explorer, clicked on and expanded "network". that had the network printer and deleted it.īuilt a new standard (not admin), local (not Microsoft), no-password account to do some experimenting in the registry. OK, I'm going to put a password back on my admin id and see if that lets me print.įound suspicious stuff in the registry that had the name of my network printer but nothing that correlated with reality. I think Windows 8 has some serious bugs in that area or is doing something really funky.
I need to find some documentation or some expert who knows Windows 8 intimately, particularly in the area of file and printer sharing and permissions. My computers have always been in a workgroup since my NT and 98 days, through XP and Win 7. It's not, and never has been, it's in a workgroup. Also, several of the error message I've been getting seem to indicate that Windows 8 thinks that it's in a domain. I'm constantly switching back and forth because most of my stuff is on the "standard" id but I have to use the admin id to print. Maybe related to the password issue but the reason I took the password off is for convenience. I took the password off my admin account on the Win 8 box and I can no longer access the network printer at all on this box. One of the accounts has a password, the other doesn't.
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