Win98 Clients Can't See Network Printers

[LRSmith]

Hi everyone - we have taken in employees from our sister offices that were devastated by Katrina. We have a fairly small office here, and I'm the IT "stuckee". Just some background so you know who/what you are dealing with.

The problem I have is this. I can't get these new PCs to print to our network printer. The PCs our displaced employees are bringing have Win98SE as the OS. I have been able to get them on our network (server is Windows Server 2003 and existing clients are all XP). I can ping the IP address of the printer from a 98 machine, see it through Internet explorer, but when I go to install it as a network printer, I can't see it at all.

I have Files and Print Sharing installed, I have installed a 98 printer driver locally on the PCs, but I can't find the blasted printer. IP address and DHCP for the individual PCs are set up automatically by the server, but the printer IP is static.

Oh - I did rename shared printer name to be less than 12 characters.

Any pointers? Thanks in advance!

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

You said the drivers are installed locally on the PC's. Have you tried installing the 98 drivers on the print server?

 

[LRSmith]

I was able to solve the problem with some guidance. Install the printer driver on the local machine, then capture a "virtual" port that directed back to the printer as \\sharedcomputer\printersharename.

It's working now. Thanks for reply though.

 

[schtek]

do you use a logon script for the 98 se clients, i think i would!! and then the printers should be seen..
with a .bat extension

have a look at this artical half way down do not use vbs for 98/95

http://www.rlmueller.net/LogonScriptFAQ.htm

hope it helps


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