Shared printer Won;t show up on network

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

Can the 98 PCs see the files and folders on the XP PC?
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Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Jeff" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:301801c428c9$0ce665e0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I have an XP and two W98 computers networked on a home
> wired ethernet LAN. Everything about the network seemes
> to work fine, but I cannot get the HP printer connected to
> the XP machine to show up on the network. It shows up
> when browsing the network from the XP machine, but not
> from the 98 machines. I have shared the printer, I think
> correctly, and also selected the Win98 drivers to be
> available to network machines.
>
> When I try to add a network printer on the 98 machines,
> the printer does not show up when browsing the network
> tree to select the printer. It will, however, seem to
> accept it if I type in its network path maunually. Then
> it will successfully show up as an installed printer, but
> print jobs error out when sent to it. Another curious
> symptom, the properties dialog box for this network
> printer comes up in French on one of the 98 machines. I
> am wondering if it used the wrong driver version obtained
> from the host machine.
>
> Any of this sound familiar to anyone? Would love some
> help fixing this problem.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

The share name of the printer is too long. I think the
maximum in Win98 is 12 characters. Good luck!


>-----Original Message-----
>I have an XP and two W98 computers networked on a home
>wired ethernet LAN. Everything about the network seemes
>to work fine, but I cannot get the HP printer connected
to
>the XP machine to show up on the network. It shows up
>when browsing the network from the XP machine, but not
>from the 98 machines. I have shared the printer, I
think
>correctly, and also selected the Win98 drivers to be
>available to network machines.
>
>When I try to add a network printer on the 98 machines,
>the printer does not show up when browsing the network
>tree to select the printer. It will, however, seem to
>accept it if I type in its network path maunually. Then
>it will successfully show up as an installed printer,
but
>print jobs error out when sent to it. Another curious
>symptom, the properties dialog box for this network
>printer comes up in French on one of the 98 machines. I
>am wondering if it used the wrong driver version
obtained
>from the host machine.
>
>Any of this sound familiar to anyone? Would love some
>help fixing this problem.
>.
>