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interesting, i've only ever used it for shares before. Well, even so, he could at least use it on the computer or share name the printer is physically attached to, which would help eliminate if being "discovered" by people browsing the network.Quote:
Originally Posted by CeeBee
Just tested and unless I'm doing something wrong, my <Testworkgroup$> is viewable via my Windows 2000 machine from viewing <Entire Network>.
Ok so then it doesn't work for workgroups.. only choice is to change the computer name or the share name (these 2 *do* work).
Actually you're probably on the right track here, just that hidden names applies to shares and a printer share would apply.
So if his printer share is, HPLasr (5 characters for pre-2000 machines) just make it HPLasr$ instead.
Many thanks for your suggestions guys - sorry about my late reply - had easter off. I will go try the $ share name option & let you know what happens.....
That didn't work unfortunately - can't hide the printer port from anyone who browses for a port when adding a new printer... will keep trying!
Give this a try.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...wsethread.html
No good either! I'll keep trying and investigating..
Have you flush the DNS cache of the computers?
<ipconfig /flushdns>
Also who administer the computers? XP has a habit of picking up shares automatically and you might have to remove old entries before the fix will work.
Why not set permissions on the shared printers and only allow the people you want to have the ability to print set in the permissions?