Here's the problem: We have a HP Laserjet 6p installed on a Win2k PRO machine. It's shared ... now, every win2k machine on the network can access it and print, but it wont work with our Win98 machines. We specified the Win95/98 drivers when we installed the printer. We connect to it through NetBEUI/NetBIOS. We even added users to the win2k's User List. When we try to print, it says Cannot write to \\server\printer , invalid access code. We tried to reinstall the drivers on both the server and the clients and it still doesnt work. Any help on this would be extremely useful, thanks in advance.

You have probably already done this. But Make sure on the windows 98 machine you have the same windows username and password as on the win2k machine.

Have you tried \\W2K PC NAME\PRINTER NAME in the printer properties (details tab/print to the following port)on the w98 machine?

If this is in a domain environment, Make sure the win98 is part of the domain.

Thanks for your help. The win98 machine (5 computers) are loging in windows using the same name, and we created a user with that name in the windows 2000 one. For testing purposes, we made all of em part of the Administrators group to eliminate the possibility of missing rights. And we are not using a domain ... its all being done with a workgroup. We also have a Novell server ... so if anyone have a suggestion on sharing and using the printer over IPX/Novell, that might help.

We had a similar problem with our Xerox ...To solve it we simple changed the shared printer name on the server...Win 98 will not recognize more than 8 characters for a printer name...try this and see if it works...