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Installing a printer under Win2K server

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We've got a HP 4050 laser printer connected to our network. Up until now we've been using an older Dell machine with WinME as a print server. However now we've got a new machine we're using as a server. It's an Athlon 1.0Ghz box, and we're running Win2K server on it. The head admin. wanted to leave the other computer as a print server until this one is up and running so other users can still access the printer. The problem is, we've got the drivers for the printer installed on the new server, we've got the printer shared, but when you try to access the printer from a workstation, it just doesn't show up. Is there any setting that has to be changed on Win2K server, or any component that has to be added for this to work?

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by davidm

If you are using Win9x machines on this network you must be running your win2k server in mixed mode and set the printers to be used by other operating systems.also you must create the printers in the active directiory.Good Luck

by davidm

Right click on the printer in question and go to properties,click on advanced and make sure the box is checked that says "list in directory".Also make sure the drivers for other os are installed.

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