 Nonzero spectra of products in opposite orders

In a unital Banach algebra, for $\lambda \ne 0$ the existence of $R=(\lambda 1-ab{)}^{-1}$ gives $(\lambda 1-ba{)}^{-1}={\lambda }^{-1}(1+bRa)$, as verified by multiplying on either side. Interchanging $a,b$ proves the converse. Zero may differ: for the unilateral shift operator $S$ on ${\ell }^2({\mathbb{N}}_0)$, $S^{\ast }S=1$ has spectrum $\{1\}$ and $S{S}^{\ast }=1-P_0$ has spectrum $\{0,1\}$.