I set up my daughter on a Windows 8 laptop just after Christmas. >< At the time, there was very little help online.
She started setting it up before I got in with her. She set it to use Windows Live login (or whatever they are calling it these days) as "recommended" rather than local accounts. I had to set her up to print to a Windows share with local username/password. It took hours of looking, trying different things, etc. There were different issues. The first thing I finally found was I needed to tell Windows 8 that it was a home network, not a public network (Windows 8 defaulted to a public network without asking, and as expected won't connect to a share in a "public place"). I would assume you would need to set it up as a work network. Then I had to mount a share, caching credentials. This allowed me to finally see the printer share. (If you only have a printer share, I think you need to find some other way of entering credentials before you can see the printer share...) It has been too long since I did it to recall all the exact steps. This should get you pointed in the right direction and avoid a few hours of my trial and error. My experience with Windows 8... Fine if you want to browse the web, do email, Facebook and whatever other tablet apps. If you need to do anything beyond the utmost basic usage... prepare for lots of trial and error, ripping your hair out seeing settings you can't change, and total frustration. (Extremely so if you do not have a touch screen.) Paul On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/30/2013 03:32 PM, andrew mcelroy wrote: > >> http://windows.microsoft.com/**en-us/windows/sharing-files-** >> printers-help#sharing-files-**and-printers=windows-8&v1h=** >> win8tab1&v2h=win7tab1&v3h=**winvistatab1&v4h=winxptab1<http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sharing-files-printers-help#sharing-files-and-printers=windows-8&v1h=win8tab1&v2h=win7tab1&v3h=winvistatab1&v4h=winxptab1> >> >> > Yeah, I saw that. Contrast against: > > <http://www.admin-magazine.**com/Articles/Linux-with-**Windows-8<http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Linux-with-Windows-8> > > > > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > nlug-talk+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
