greetings. I have a HP LaserJet attached locally to a W2K machine. I have shared it out and under Security, have given "Everyone" access to this printer. In the next office, I have another W2K machine and when I try to add the shared printer through the Add Printer, Network Printer screen, I can see the PC, but not the printer. As the administrator to both PCs, I was allowed to add the printer and print to it just fine. However, when a regular user gets on the PC and tries to print to the network printer, they get a message saying they have no access rights. I know one way to make it work is to add that user as another user onto the PC that the printer is attached to. But is this the only way? I don't want to have to add more and more users as local accounts to the PC that is sharing the printer. Any ideas?

If internet or local security is not an issue you can enable the guest account and give those users permission to the printer.

So if I enable the built in Guest account, I will be able to add this network shared printer to any future W2K PC I put on the network? I'm trying to avoid the situation of having to add 20-30 user accounts into one PC, just so all of them can print to it's shared printer.

Yes, you should be able to add other users/computers without any problems.