Hey all:
Have looked all over the MS website and can’t find a useable solution to this problem. Working in a large, 4 site school district. Running NT and 2000 on servers and mixed platforms (various W9x) on desktops. TCP/IP network protocol.
In an area where I am, I have 8 PC’s on a counter and 3 PC’s in an office 10 feet away. I have a printer (HP4000) shared (not JetDirect – direct
parallel port shared) off of one of them.
When looking to install the shared printer on all other PC’s, only a few found the shared PC on our network. The icon for the PC was there on each PC. When attempting to connect to the PC, the infamous “The computer or sharename could not be found. Make sure you typed…” message pops up and there is no way to gain ANY access to the PC.
Once the PC was renamed on the network, ALL the other PC’s in the room could see, connect, and install the shared resource (printer). Before the name change, only a few could – and they were different OS versions (95, 98, ME).
Has anyone had this problem or know of a solution? We are on an NT/2000 server based “flat” network. It just seems some resources can be seen and used and others can not.
In fact, one other PC (W98se)is sharing a folder for a secretary to back up her documents. I am building a new W98se PC for her and this new PC can not access the shared folder in that same office as previously mentioned. I CAN access that drive with no problem from my W2k PC in my
office with no trouble.
This has really got me stumped and I would appreciate ANY words of wisdom from you all.
Thanks tons!
BKP
