network printing between nt4 and xp - help!

[edmicman]

I have an HP Laserjet 6p printer shared from an NT4 Server machine. Win2k machines on our network connect just fine, but I can't get the shared printer to work on the XP Pro workstation. When I try to connect to the printer, XP says the driver for the printer is not compatible with XP. I downloaded what is supposed to be XP drivers from HPs website, but still no dice. Its still like its trying to pull the drivers from the NT box instead of using the local drivers for the printer. Is there a way to get this to work?? Thanks much!

 

[Allanv]

in the printer control panel look for something that says additional drivers and ad the xp one to it in there, then when you try to connect to the printer the driver should be already there.

or when connecting to the printer it should say driver isnt correct and should offer to get you to install them, just show it where you have the drivers stored and let it install them

 

[edmicman]

i found the additional drivers part on the NT machine, but there is no where to add new drivers. I'm wondering if I'm supposed to manually copy drivers over to somewhere?? I right clicked and installed the inf file I got from HP on the NT machine, but it didn't add it to it either. When I try to connect from the XP machine, it doesn't give me a choice to install another driver. All it says is the the printer driver is not compatible. Gahhhhh stupid NT stuff. I hate it. Any other ideas?

 

[edmicman]

bump for any more thoughts?

 

[IsOs]

How exactly are you trying to connect to the printer? If you use the add a printer, then click network printer, browse then click the printer. It then will tell you that the driver is not in the server and would offer to allow you to install from a different source.

The HP Laserjet 6p driver that built into Windows XP should be sufficient. Make sure that the current user of in the Windows XP machine have been defined and granted permission in the Windows NT machine.

If you previously installed this printer before, you need to delete it first.

 

[edmicman]

Originally posted by: IsOs
How exactly are you trying to connect to the printer? If you use the add a printer, then click network printer, browse then click the printer. It then will tell you that the driver is not in the server and would offer to allow you to install from a different source.
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Thats what its supposed to do, but its not. It finds the shared printer, then when I proceed it says "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The driver that you are trying to install is not compatible with Windows XP." All that dialog box has is an OK that goes back to the screen where you select the printer. There is no prompt to install another driver.

I found something on the newsgroups about having to manually copy the XP driver over to the NT machine so that when it connects it will try and pull that, but there was nothing about WHERE you copy WHAT to, so I'm lost. Gahhhhhh stupid HP. Maybe the next step is trying tech support. Just thought maybe there was a quick solution somehwere. Thanks!

 

[edmicman]

update!

after some digging on HPs forums, I found this:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=244008

It seems to work, so its all good.