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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