I have a small 5 computer network at our school. All computers have XP home (SP2) installed except 1 which has XP Pro. Our printer is connected to the XP Pro station (Parallel port) and I have enabled file and printer sharing. I have disabled Windows firewall as the network has no external access because the network is only setup for file and printer sharing - no internet access. When I install the network printer on the other 4 workstations, it asks for a username and password of the XP Pro workstation. I enter everything proper, tell it to remember the password and everything seems to work fine. The problem is that if I shutdown/restart the XP Home workstations I can no longer connect to the printer hooked up to the XP Pro machine. Any way to remove the password security on the printer and share just like a XP Home setup? Thanks. 1 person got this answerI do too