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1) Continue to keep a mapped drive to that desktop PC (as the credentials used when mapping to that drive will be passed to the PC when a print job is created).
2) Enable the "guest" account on the desktop PC and set the password to NULL (i.e. no characters). This will allow other computers/users outside of the desktop's security realm to log into it when it sends the job.
Mike, 1) works but it's a chore. 2) is hardly good security.
Oh I agree about #2, but #1 is hardly a chore when it's a one-time drive mapping (remembering to tick the box to keep the mapping past a reboot).
It'll also fix the latest issue reported about not being able to see the printer. Printer security is dealt with by Windows in exactly the same way as mapped drives, except you don't get an interface with which to do anything - hence the mapped drive trick is using exactly the same technique as your favourite one of keeping credentials the same on all PCs - it's passing credentials through security realms as the duple matches.