Sharing a printer from VMWARE ( guest windows 2000) to host ( windows 8 )

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shod90

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Hello guys
um working in a company , I have an old SHARP printer not working expect on windows 2000 or xp , So i decided to install vmware on one of the users pc's then i installed the printer driver on that vmware guest and it works good but only on that guest pc.
I need to share that printer from the guest pc to the whole entire network to be as a print server .. is it possible ? And how ?
Thanks in advance
 
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Yes it is, all you have to do is right click on the printer and go to your Printer Properties > Sharing Tab > Check on Share this printer. Now that the sharing is done, check to see what that computer name is. Now search the network in a windows explorer for your computer name: \\Example-PC and your shared printer should...
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You'll probably need to use something like REDMON so that the printing can be offloaded to the print server. Normally with Windows, the print server is a pretty dumb beast which simply serves up a copy of the driver to the client then relays the processed data back to the printer. Thus, the driver needs to be compatible with the client OS. (Server 2012 is finally starting to change that with the advent of Type 4 XPS printer drivers which do pretty much what I did with a Linux print server at my first employer back in 2000 - accept the print data in a standard format then process it through the driver running on the server.)

Setting up a REDMON PostScript queue, via Ghostscript, may allow you to print from the clients using a generic PostScript driver, with the server converting it into whatever format the printer uses (possibly some form of Zenographics stream).

Having said that, have you tried installing the XP driver on your Win8 clients? I've had very few problems installing drivers intended for WinXP on Win7 (including XP x64 drivers on Win7 x64) and even on Server 2012R2 (which is basically Win8.1). If you can extract the driver files (all the .inf, .cat, .dll, etc. files) from the installer you may be able to add the driver to the client or (better still) to your main print server (you will need both 32- and 64-bit drivers on the server if you have 32-bit clients) via Print Management.

Hope this helps...

Stephen
 
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Yes it is, all you have to do is right click on the printer and go to your Printer Properties > Sharing Tab > Check on Share this printer. Now that the sharing is done, check to see what that computer name is. Now search the network in a windows explorer for your computer name: \\Example-PC and your shared printer should pop out in the computer name path. Double click on the shared printer and it should install the printer driver just as you would from a print server. Hope this helps.
 
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