colinkhalid

Hi I have a win98SE sytem to which is connected 2 printers and a cable modem. This is connected to 3 win 98 systems and 2 Win XP prof system on my LAN. The problem is that the xp machines can see the network printers but can't print to them, the error is "can't start print job" the win 98SE system can print without any problems. Is there any way around this other than puting XP on the "server" box ? Iam using winroute to share the internet and Iam not sure that if it is compatible with XP. any advice welcome p.s networking is a sort of hobby for me :-)

one small thing I would like to add is that when I upgraded a win98 system to XP proff the pre setup network printers worked from XP but when I did the clean install ..............nothing

yes I connect to win98 what should I enter in the WINS server search order the ip system on my LAN is :- XP box 1 192.168.1.1 Win98 1 box 192.168.1.2 Win98 2 box 192.168.1.3 WinME box 192.168.1.4 Win98 box 192.168.1.5 this has the printers,cable modem and Winroute XP box 2 192.168.1.6 all fixed ip, DCHP on winroute is off Thanks

Just to add to the knowlege (or lack in my case) I connect to the internet via server running Winroute lite and cable modem and have mapped the ports as advised but sending files via instant messanger does not work. It seems it may not be possible !!

Just to add my input, I am running XP prof and have just the same problem as in the first post. I would really like to know how to resolve this.