Printer only working on one username

Guapa1

Hi all,

I asked for help last week for the internet, and it seems to be working:beer:

This week is a new situation. On the PC, there are now 4 user names mine, my sisters, my mum and admin.

When I go to my computer on my mum's and sisters name, it has mum's documents, sister's documents and local disk. My name isn't listed.

When I go on my name, I can only see shared documents, I put my name as an administrator, but when I put a usb stick in, it says I don't have the privileges to do so.

I can also print from my name, but the others cannot print at all. I've checked that the settings are the same on all user names and they appear to be. Can anyone give me any advice?

Ta muchly

dragon934

have you rebooted since changing the priviledges?

Guapa1

I have now rebooted it, and can now see the names of others, but my name isn't in their 'my computer' section, and they still can't use the printer.

DVardysShadow

So, you never came back with what actually fixed your internet problem. This is not good for 2 reasons.

Firstly, it leaves no record of how the problem was eventually solvedfor the benefit of those making suggestions and anyone who comes later with a similar problem.

Secondly, the internet problem is so obviously similar to your printer problem, that anyone helping you now should really have the benefit of your experience with the previous problem.


And as said before, you should not be connecting to the internet as admin - in fact you should only do admin tasks as admin. This means that your username should not have admin privileges - and you should specifically log on as admin to undertake admin tasks. You do not need admin privileges for either printing or internet. I wonder if to some extent your problems derive from using a user account with upgraded privileges to do admin tasks rather than using a proper admin account.

Guapa1

I did in the other thread. After I ran spybot there were only 4 entries it couldn't delete. After that I could get online on my mums user name. I still updated and ran SaS and it still worked.

Some background on the PC. It's a nightmare! I only use it for printing purposes as I have a laptop, but I've cleaned it up as much as I could for my mum and sister. I've added some RAM and it's much faster now, but the printer only works on my name.

You could be on to something about the privileges because I've now changed all the accounts bar Admin to limited and I now can't get online with my name, and I know there is nothing wrong with the connection because I'm using my laptop to write this message!

I can still print though, and have just checked the other user name and it still can't.

While trying to sort out this printing/internet thing out, I've also come across another problem. It says that there is 37.9gb of memory and only 3.8gb of space, but my mum's docs are 7gb, mine is about 8 but it's my sister's stuff. She had been using my user name because it works the fastest and prints.

*deep sigh* I have to go to bed now. Please leave any advice here, and I'll keep working at it tomorrow evening. Thank you for all the help I've got already.
Night

Guapa1

Bumping! Any ideas?