Printer sharing in win2k.

[mightyscotchpine]

Could someone illuminate me on this:

I have a network of mixed win2k(Dell) and win98se(clone) machines.
I have an HPLaserjet 1100 set up on a win2k machine with file/printer sharing enabled. The guest account is also enabled.
At this point, any of the 2k or 98 machines should be able to print to the hp, right? That's the way it's worked for me in the past.
In this case it's not working.
If I go into Start-->Settings-->Printers on another pc on the network, the shared HP shows up. I send a test page, but nothing ever prints. The host pc (the win2k machine) shows no jobs in it's queue. When you go back into Start-->Settings-->Printers on the sending pc, it shows no jobs in the queue, but "HPLaserjet -- waiting" shows up next to the icons.

Am I being boneheaded and missing something obvious? I swear on the souls of all the goldfish I have ever flushed that this printer setup has worked for me before.
Thanks for any help possible.

 

[michael64]

To share a printer, you need to have an account on the computer that everyone can log in as on their own computer, unless you share it out on a Windows 95/98 machine. Next, once the account is created and that account has permissions to print after you share the printer, make sure that the user is loggin in as the specified user on that box. Next, type in \\computername and look for the shared printer. Right click on it and choose connect or install from the menu depending on the OS version and supply the correct drivers. Make sure that all computers are in the same workgroup.