I used to have two desktops A & B, they have internet sharing and printer sharing , they were working fine.

Desktop A XP Professional SP2 PC has got two printers (HP and Samsung) connected directly (USB cable), and printer sharing is turned on .

I bought another Desktop to replace B, because B is an old PC.

From the Desktop B (XP Professional SP2), when attempting to chose the option :
, to add a shared printer , I can browse and see the printers name (hp and Samsung), however, when I attempt to
connect both of them, I get the following error:

Do I need to have admin account with their passwords on both Desktop to be able to share the printers ?

Both PCs on the same workgroup name (MSHOME), there are no firewalls on both PCs.

From the Microsoft web site;

There is a command line you can use to connect printers over a network.

Click Start, click Run, enter the following:

Also, if you don't already, you need to have the drivers for both printers on both systems.


ADD:

Was there an error code after the error message (0x0......., etc.) ?

I will try this command as well, and see how it will go.

do you have any firewalls running?

No!

No

Maybe try installing both printer on both machines separately, so you know for sure both sets of working drivers are definitely on both machines.

Its a bit of work, but at least you could then rule out a driver problem.