Can't share a printer in Win 2k?

[Bglad]

I have a box running 2k Pro with an HP Deskjet USB printer. Printer works fine locally but I can't access it from any other machine on the lan (win98 machines on the lan). If I try to access from another machine it asks for drivers. So I tried to load the Win98 drivers as secondary shared drivers on the 2k sharing tab but it won't take the drivers. It just says no appropriate drivers were found.

Can anyone help?
Thx

 

[Doh!]

Do you also get the "no appropriate drivers were found" message when you try to load the win98 drivers within the win98 machine? If you haven't already tried, download the win98 drivers and when asked for the drivers, just point it to the downloaded drivers within the win98 machine. I hope it works.

 

[Apatewnas]

When u share the printer in 2k and try to access it from a win98 machine, the latter will state that it cannot find drivers for the printer since it's trying to get via network the win2k version of the drivers. I have had similar problems with Win98+printer and WinME and no solution was found then. Other possible solutions :
i) The NetBeui protocol is known to resolve such issues of incompatibility with Hp printers but i haven't tested it yet.
ii) Try Doh!'s solution
iii) Get a print server

 

[Bglad]

apatewnas
If you are having the same problem, this is how I finally solved it.

The Win2k machine didn't want to accept any drivers for the network share that I thought should be right for Win98. I just kept trying drivers until I got it to accept something, anything.

Then I went to the client and tried to install network printer. When it goes to pull drivers from the server, it says wrong driver, can't find file "x". So I took my HP driver CD and pulled the file needed. Then it goes to the next file and says can't find file y. I had to do each file individually one at a time. The files from hp have truncated extensions for some reason i.e. a .dll is .dl_ on the cd. Each one must be changed manually and then installed manually.

As I was doing this I was saying under my breath that I was wasting my time and then to my surprise, it worked perfectly.

 

[Apatewnas]

well this could be a solution for one pc but can you imagine a 35 client network??? I now recall at one time, the server had win2k the clients win98 and i installed drivers for an epson stylus color 900 separately (the win2k version on the server ad the win98 version on the clients when it needed). Still i insist that a print server is a much better solution on large networks of course.

 

[Bglad]

Well, you are right but the files could easily be burned to a cd for installation. Unfortunately I was so sure this wouldn't work, I didn't do it the first time.