printer sharing on win 2000 professional

Share the printer with a single-word (possibly of less than 8 characters-like 'Printer').
On the Win98 pc, start the 'Add Printer' wizard; but instead of browsing for the shared printer, straightaway give the correct url of the printer to add. For example: \\Print_Server\Printer.
This should find the printer and add it, assuming you have installed drivers for Win98 on the Print_Server (from 'additional drivers').

Hope this helps.

Hi

Another option you can try is to make sure the name of the shared printer does not contain any accents. For example, if you share a printer as 'Mick's printer' it will not be seen, or it will be reported as being offline.

However, if the networked printer cannot be seen at all, I would stop sharing it, then share it again. Hopefully, the printer will now be visible when you browse for it. If you cannot see it using a UNC path as described above, then I would check the Win2000 system, and make sure that sharing is properly enabled, and that the Win98 machines have permission to access the printer.

Good luck

Hi, possibly you haven't the win 98 drivers in the server, or in the workstations. It's possible too that you have shared the printer as password protected, you must to unprotect it or specify the users who will be able to print.

The printer should show up when you browse the Network N-Hood? If so just right click on it and install from there.

win200 and xp both have a networkwizerd you have to run to get shears to show up right under win98, the wizerd will make a floppy for you and you run this on the 98 system this should make the shares work

Sometimes, in a business setting, the user on the Windows 98 computer must also be a user on the Windows 2000 computer. I know it sounds kind of stupid, but I just ran into the same situation about a week ago. We had a Win2K Pro pc sharing a printer on a network with two Win98 pc's. Neither of the Win98 pc's could see the printer until I made the users of the Win98 pc's users on the Win2K pc. Try it.

I've experienced the same thing as Brian.
Also, if the user has a password, it must be the same on all PCs.

Set up your Windows 2000 computer to have a workgroup like 'homenet' or whatever you want it to be (by right-clicking 'My Computer' and the 'Identification' tab.

Next, do the same for your 98 box (right-click 'Network Neighborhood'> 'Properties,' then the 'Identification tab.

Make the workgroup and domain exactly the same. Also verify that you are on the same IP subnet. For example, I use 10.0.0.x (where x should be anything from 2 thru 254). Set PC 1 as 10.0.0.2 and PC 2 as 10.0.0.3- or whatever's available. If you are using a Linksys Router (or anything utilizing DHCP) you shouldn't have to perform this step - just verify that both PCs are using the same subnet.

In "adding new printer" dialog select network printer, then do not click Browse but type network path for your printer in a window as following:

\\PCname\printerShareName

where PCname is the name of a computer that printer connected to, and printerShareName is a name under which printer is shared.

I assume that this is a peer to peer network. Make sure all workstations belong to the same workgroup. to share the printer on the 2000 workstation. go into printers and click on sharing. Ensure that the everyone group has permissions to print. Next on a 98 PC go to Network Neighborhood Do you see the 2000 workstation? If so when you double click on it the printer share should be shown. Right click on it and choose install. You should have the 98 drivers for the printer accessible to the 98 workstations then follow the onscreen prompts to install the printer using the have disk option. You should now be able to print from the 98 workstation. One other note is that you have to go into the local security in the admin tools of the 2000machine and make access this pc from network. You should now be able to print just fine from the 98 machines.

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