Network Printer Not showing up in network neighbourhood

[aasra]

Ok, Here is the story.
There is a peer-to-peer network of 7 win98/2k pro pcs with one hp 8000 network printer( with jetdirect card with an ip address of course). Now the problems is that the printer shows up as a node in some win98 network neighbourhood and does not in others.while the same pcs show up in all pcs, only on some of the computers I cant find the hp network printer.
Briefly, when i click on network neighbourhood i can see all the pcs in the workgroup and the printer but in one or two computers I see the sames pcs in the workgroup except the network printer.
Please help!!Any suggetions?
Thanks you very vert much?

 

[skyking]

Try manually adding the printer, by TCP/IP port in the problem computers. Once that is done, you should be fine.

 

[aasra]

Hi thanks for the reply
Now, Can you elaborate on what you mean by manually adding the printer?
All I know is that when i click on add printer icon I have only two choices, the network one if i put the ip address of the printer it will show up as a Offline printer ( which is not).
Thanks again for the help

 

[skyking]

That sounds like something is messed up in the TCP/IP stack in the suspect win98 machines. Sometimes, it can be fixed by deleting and reinstalling the network devices and protocols. Other times, I have seen it go as far as a win98 fresh install. Do you have all the 98 boxes configured exactly the same, file and printer sharing enabled, etc.?

 

[aasra]

 

[aasra]

OK I did a fresh install for 98 and reloaded the tcp/ip and file and print sharing but still is the same no printer, as a matter of fact,when i do a search for network printers from add printers icon i only see 2 pcs, while when i do the same thing from network neighbour hood i see all the pcs except the printer.
Thanks again

 

[spidey07]

I don't think the jet direct printe server is supposed to show up under network neighborhood.

You can either share the printer from a machine (this box will queue up the print jobs and send them to the printer) or you can printe directly the IP address of the jet direct card.

 

[aasra]

Hi
But it already shows up in network neighbourhood of on pc. and you see the printer is not a print server, just another node on the network and already is being used by some pcs.
Thanks
aasra

 

[Tokar]

eh i have the same problem with my network computers, i cant see the computer in network neighborhood, let alone a computer's shared items...(windows XP network)

i just dont worry about it and just map every time i need to access network items...
i share the a printer on one computer, and it doesnt show up, but i just know that its shared as \\192.168.0.1\printer...so i install it as a network printer in the printers menu and never worry again

same deal with shared drives, i just map them to a drive...