I have been using and administering a small network of peer to peer computers for sometime and generally speaking I have been able to solve most problems, but the problem of printing from my laptop (which is running Win 2000) to an HP 1100 printer which is local to a computer running NT has me beat. I have downloaded every concievable driver from HP's site, installed them on both of the machines, followed windows trouble shooter to the letter, tried to print by creating a new local port, but NOTHING is working. I have checked all my network connections - the two machine ping each other like lovers! Does anybody out there have an answer? Ta!

What happens if you pause printing on the NT machine and then send a job from the 2k machine? Does the spooler on the NT system show a job sitting there?

what error message does it give?

With the printer set up on new a local port (based upon the IP address of the NT machine)I have tried pausing the printer on the NT machine - when I send a test page from my Win 2K laptop the spooler on the Win2K machine shows a print job for a few seconds then disappears, but there is no sign of a print job on the NT machine. When I try to connect to the printer using the add a network printer, when I try to print a test page I get an error saying that the print failed and that I should resolve the problem using troubleshooter. I have followed those dorctions to the letter and I am no nearer to getting anything printed off as I was 3 hours ago! Thanks

I am having a similarissue, only the HP1100 printer is connected locally to the laptop running Windows 2000. I do get the printer to work but as soon as the user does a reboot, the printer stops functioning and all print jobs print off on one of the network printers. This is happening with 3 users only. All others seem to be fine. In order to get the printer to work, I make a change to the lpt port thru device manager or I select update driver. I let the system select the best driver and then all works ok until the next reboot.

Have a look at Microsoft's site. There is a similar issue with Win98 & NT4 server. It is article Q248656 and advises to install the drivers for a HP LaserJet 5L on both systems. I'm going to give that a try.