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printer not availble XP proffesional

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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 :-)

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i have this issue with all XP Pro systems @ work

 

it sends the job to the XP pro comp with the printer, but just says can not print., we have tried everything! nadda!

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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

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I have 3 XP boxes, 3 W2k boxes and a Couple of Laserjet series II printers on my net. What i find happens, is the Shared Locals of cant be accessed due to the Client machine actually not being logged into the print server.

 

Try this

From Client: browse your network and find your file and print server

Access a share on the print server, if your asked for a log-in and PW, you know what the problem is. Login and close the window

then print, should work fine.

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