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At my friends house, he has a desktop which uses Windows 98 and a Laptop that uses Windows XP. I am not that familiar with 98, but I know at my house where my network is, I have a laptop that uses Windows 2000 and 3 other XP computers. The windows 2000 computer asks to install additional drivers, while in Windows 98 I can't see where that is.
I installed the Printer on the 98 desktop using 98 drivers. I went to the laptop, added a printer through the network using XP drivers... whenever I do control + P in Microsoft Word, or in my web browser or in notepad, the computer just freezes. I wired the printer to the laptop and it was fine... so it is obviously something with the drivers or network itself. I have printer sharing enabled on both machines... and I just don't know why it is freezing... I had an idea after I left his house to add the printer to the 98 machine using XP drivers...as there is another USB printer connected to that machine that prints fine.
When at the computer that you need to install a printer on you go to START> settings> printers> add printer> add network printer> supply the printer driver if requested> print test page. It doesn't matter if it is USB or parallel. Be sure that file and printer sharing is enabled on the machine that hosts the printer.
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File and printer sharing is enabled on the machine that hosts 98. If I select Network Printer from the Add Printer wizard, then select the HP Printer I am trying to connect to, it says that the driver doesn't support XP, or something like that and says contact the administrator. In 2000 and up I know there is a way to install additional print drivers on the host computer, is there a way in 98?
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You don't install the printer driver on the host machine. It installs on the machine that you are printing from. See my previous reply.
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I am aware of that, but when it was shared, when I do Ctrl + P or File --> Print whether it be MSWord or IE, the computer would freeze.
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Ok, are you saying that you can't use either
printer from the XP machine? I think that
sounds like a conflict as the two ports you
are trying to print to are possibly the same.
Right now my network of 2 XP's uses an HP 600c
and an HP 895, but only one printer is hooked
to each machine. Check if both print-to ports
are called the same. That could be it.
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What do you mean by "Installing Additional Printer Drivers" ?
If you mean 'installing a driver other than those listed by Windows by default' - then in Windows 95 / 98 - you use the 'Have disk' button, that appears in the dialog box that lists the drivers.
Hope it helps you....
Muralidhar Divi
New Delhi
divim@hotmail.com
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Ok. One is usb and the other is parallel. We
need to know the exact port on the xp machine
that you have mapped. You sais earlier for one
it was \\servername\printer. Are both of them
mapped this way?
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One more thought. When you added the HP
printer on the 98 machine, did you add it as
shared printer? Some of those older HP's
don't understand File and Print Sharing as
being actual Networked Printers.
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Name: mnymkr
Date: May 03, 2004 at 13:00:46 Pacific
Subject: Printer drivers on a networked 98
Reply:
Ok. One is usb and the other is parallel. We
need to know the exact port on the xp machine
that you have mapped. You sais earlier for one
it was \\servername\printer. Are both of them
mapped this way?
Yes, both are mapped this way. But I tryed deleting both printers and just adding one (HP 3820). That is a newer printer where the 832C is older.
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Try using an older driver for the 3820. I
ended up the other day networking an HP2175
using the driver for an HP550c, and it
worked.
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