Topic: Printing via a Windows 2000 server

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We are slowly migrating to an SME 6.5 server from an OS/2 Warp Server domain with a Windows 2000 server handling some of the printing.  The Windows 2000 server is running a page-counting accounting program called PaperCut (www.papercut.biz) so for now at least printing needs to be handled via the Windows 2000 server rather than SME or Warp Server.

The SME server was set up as a server-only Domain Controller (we're behind a hardware firewall) with a different domain name than the OS/2 Warp Server, and the Windows 2000 server is solitary domain controller with a third domain name.  All three different domains have the same usernames and passwords set up (I wrote some routines to syncronize them).

Currently our Windows 98 users sign on the Warp Server network and have access to all it's resources and can also print via the Windows 2000 box, the PaperCut software keeps track of pages printed, and we can charge students and departments accordingly.  The SME server is currently unused by Windows 98 users (they'll be migrated in a later stage).

Our Windows XP users sign on to the SME server, which immediately via the NETLOGON script assigns all their usual drive letters from the Warp Server domain so they have access to all their current data.  Later when I have everyone signing on via the SME server and things are working right, I'll start migrating all the data shares to the SME server and eventually eliminate the Warp Server.

So far this is working fine as I've described it.  However I am unable to get the Windows XP users to print via the Windows 2000 server.  When I attempt to connect to a printer (either the NET USE LPT1: \\WIN2K\PRTNAME or the graphical equivalent), Windows XP asks for a username and password instead of silently using the logged-on user's info, and entering valid username/password combos doesn't work.

I'm unsure of how to proceed.  Why are the Windows 98 clients printing and not XP -- is it because of SME or XP?  Do I need to set up some sort of trust relationship between the Windows 2000 server and the SME server, or make the Windows 2000 server an additional server within the SME server's domain, and if so how would I go about doing either?  Longer term, is there page counting and accounting software available for Linux and/or the SME server that I should think about switching to?

Any suggestions about how to resolve this problem, both immediately and longer term, would be appreciated.

Thanks!

David