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XP Home:Printer sharing experience

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by ustek

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I have a small office of 4 W98 w/s, 1 winXP Home and a win2k stand alone server.
I was able to share Lexmark Z35 printer LPT1 connected to XP w/s only after:
-created accounts on XP for each user;
-enabled guest account;
-disabled Firewall;
andwhat is most peculiar, to print on the
printer there must be a user logged in XP with
admin rights?

I was completely lost.
I have over 10 years of dos/NT3-4 and W2k experience.
but that was very unusual or...
may be I missed smth.
anybody can share their experience?

Thanks
ustek@hotmail.com

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by bunkee

I have a similiar problem in that I have the a HPLJ 3300 attached to the XP Pro machine via Ethernet. I can print to it just fine, but I'm SOL if I want to scan. Seems like the printer doesn't want to talk to the Ethernet. My research thus far has produced nothing. If I find something out, I'll make sure you know about it as I believe we both have a port issue.

I'm thinking perhaps adding a static port may help. In any case, more to come...I hope!

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