XP Home - cannot connect to printer

[Gary Dale]

This is a weird problem I'm having. I have a Debian/Sarge server configured as a PDC for a small network. This is actually overkill since the workstations are both using XP home, but I didn't know that when I set up the server.

Both workstations are able to connect to the network shares and print to  a printer that is attached to the server when logged on with the initial two accounts I set up. There is no security on the printer, just on the printer admin (the only change I made to the default (Debian) cupsd.conf was to allow the local network to connect - Allow From 192.168.1.*).

The workstations connect to the printer using http://dellbert:631/printers/HL-5040, so Samba is not involved as far as I understand.

I recently added a new account to one of the workstations and set up a corresponding account on the server using Samba. It can connect to the network shares OK, but not to the printer. To be clear, the other two accounts on the same computer do connect to the printer! It's just this one (new) account that doesn't.

Both workstations are running XP Home/SP2. The only difference I can see on the workstations is the new account doesn't have a .net passport set up. I can't see any difference in the account setup on the server. All three linux accounts are members of the same groups and all three are also Samba accounts.

Anyone have any ideas?