Hi all,

I have a real interesting problem here. A while back I tried sharing a HP DeskJet 800 Series printer locally from one NT Workstation PC to another. It was directly connected to PC 1 and I was trying to share it to PC 2. Well, everytime I went into the Sharing tab and/or the Security tab and made changes, the moment I would click Apply or OK an error message would appear saying that the printer settings could not be saved. I tried doing this as the administrator of the local PC, as the administrator of the network, but neither worked.

I though it was a HP issue, but now I have an IBM printer that is doing the same exact thing. The weird thing is that just down the hall another IBM printer, exact same make and model, is shared locally and didn't have the problem the one (or two) above are having. Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how to fix it? At least now I know it's a NT issue and not a HP one. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

2 solutions come to mind:

1. Make sure you are running the correct driver. I am assuming you already did this. And

2. Using explorer, go to the root of C:, right click and select properties. Select security and then permissions, and grant full access to administrators. Make sure you select "replace permissions on subdirectories" and "replace permissions on existing files". by default, administrator doesn't always have full access to everything. I know, you would think you would huh? hahah

I fixed it. The server service wasn't running. Per MS's KB I reinstalled SP4 and everything worked from that point on. Thanks.