FC1 Printer sharing only works with Win98

Edward edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Tue Sep 7 01:18:04 UTC 2004



M.Hockings wrote:
> Please accept my apologies if this hits the list twice.  I've tried to  
> send it to the list via gmane but that route does not appear to be 
> functioning any longer.  My inquiry follows:
> 
> I am trying to share a printer attached to an FC1 box on our network. 
> The network has a mix of FC1, Win98, Win2K and WinXP boxes.  The printer 
> is configured and working just fine on the FC1 box that it is attached 
> to just fine.  And I have been able to configure the Win98 boxes to use 
> it successfully as well.  However any attempt to get it to work with 
> other FC1 boxes, Win2K or XP fail.  Browsing for the printer (SMB I 
> guess?) and configuring it works just fine but printing fails miserably. 
> I did try turning off the firewall on the machine with the printer but 
> that does not seem to help.  If it matters, the printer is an old HP 
> DeskJet 870cxi.
> 
> Any thoughts about how to make printer sharing on FC1 work with 
> operating systems more advanced than Win98 ?
> 
> Mike

Hey Mike. I remember doing this way back and running into the exact same 
problems. It has something to do with permissions. Do you get 'Connect 
error - access denied', when you look at the printers folder in W2K/XP?

Regards,
Ed.





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