Unable to Access Printer on WinME system

I am cross posting this from the .networking.w2000 group. I would
really like any ideas you might have on this.
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I have two systems both connected to a simple hub (that is also
connected to a highspeed modem). The first system (Sys-A) is running
WinME, the second system (Sys-B)is a laptop running Win2K. I have a
printer connected to the parallel port on sys-a. I want to print from
sys-b to the printer attached to sys-a. I've tried almost everything.

sys-a is using share-level access and the "primary netowrk logon" is
"client for MS networks". I have a user on sys-a created to be the
same name as the user on sys-b which I log into via a cached version of
the domain login. I have set the workgroup on sys-a to match that of
the domain on sys-b. (BTW - I have little or no flexibility to change
sys-b; however I should not that once I did an experiment and changed
sys-b to be a workgroup instead of a domain, and matched the two and it
worked, except in that mode I cannot use sys-b for it's normal intended
purposes.) I've also disabled the firewall on sys-a with no change in
results.

I have enable Print sharing on the sys-a printer, and it is indeed
shared. I installed NetBUI protocol, cause I read in a post somewhere
that it solved other similar problems - not mine.

What works:
On sys-b, a Net View reveals BOTH sys-b, and sys-a names correctly. I
can ping AND tracert sys-a from sys-b no problem.


What doesn't work:
A run sys-a command gives the error: "sys-a is not accessible; there
are currnetly no logon servers available to service the logon request".
When I do a Net View \\sys-a (from sys-b) I get: "System error 5 ;
access is denied."
When I try to add printer as a network printer, it simply doesn't find
it, although it does see sys-a. I did add a local port however and
called it \\sys-a\printer and that takes, but when I try to do a test
print, it will not print and generates the error: "test print failed,
unable to create a print job." If I try to print to that local port
from an application it says "you do not have persmission to access that
printer".

Any ideas?