From: "Frank Haber" 

What's the conventional way to approach this problem that will offend the
admin the least?

1. Friend's kid has private school-controlled XP Pro SP1 laptop, on a
domain, mucho resource-lockdown, password required to even leave domain. 
Yes, the paranoia is justified in this school.  Yes, they occasionally
still get viruses and machines get owned for a half a day or so.  They're
pretty good, and pretty on top of things.  The admins (netadmins and school
administrators) also have egos slightly beyond their compentence.  Not that
I'm a pro at these things, but I'd judge them good, not geniuses.

Say you want to USE a home printer, parallel connnected to the parents'
machine, workgroup setup.  Enabling the Guest acct. is a bit aggressive.
Installing NETBEUI might cause conniptions.  Asking the student to type
things like NET USE \\DADDYO USER:administrator is also a bit much.  How
would you do it in a minimally obtrusive and friendly manner?  Ever heard
of a util that does this?  Ever heard of a util flexible enough to let her
walk upstairs with the laptop to her girlfriend's apartment and connect to
*that* daddyo's inkjet?

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-Frank, obviously in an urban environment.

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