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shared win 2k printer
Name: NT4 novice Date: July 24, 2003 at 05:49:31 Pacific OS: NT4 SP6 CPU/Ram: PII 450Mhz/128MB
Comment:
Hi. I am trying to connect to a shared printer on a Windows 2000 Professional machine. I thought I had everything right. I made the user on the NT 4 machine a user on the 2000 machine and I have all the drivers ready. When I try to connect to the printer via Network neighborhood it gives me a message "the drivers on the system do not match... would you like to continue?" I say yes and it prompts me for the inf file to install the printer. No matter which driver I use (win2k or nt4) I get an error message saying the printer cannot be installed. What am I doing wrong?
Name: Maurice Reed Date: July 24, 2003 at 07:37:05 Pacific
Reply:
One thing you could try. On the NT4 machine install the printer as if it's on the parallel LPT1 port, skip the test print part.
Once it's installed, open the printer properties page and go to the port settings and then add new port and browse to the share name on the Win200 machine.
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Response Number 2
Name: jrIStech Date: July 24, 2003 at 10:10:45 Pacific
Reply:
make sure you enabled sharing for the printer by right-clicking it and adding a shared name
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