OK, I have a wierd one.
4 Computers, 2 W98, 1 W2K, 1 XP Home, all networked.
3 Printers, Brother all in one laser, Minolta 2540 colour laser, HP 1125c A3 inkjet.
Setup with the Brother and HP being networked, the Minolta connected to the XP computer via USB, and shared (it can’t be networked because the computer actually controls the printer, somewhat like a Winmodem).
When setup every computer could happily (?) print to any printer.
Now the W2k can’t print to the Minolta, the XP can’t print to the HP (though using the print server configuration test utility on the XP does print a status page), the W98s can print to all.
Have turned off Zone Alarm, done virus and spyware checks still no print. (I admit that I didn’t turn off the XP firewall – ran out of time)
Re installed the HP printer on the XP, created the same user and password on the W2k and XP to try to get the W2k to print to the Minolta. Have done a system restore to a month ago, no joy.
The XP is only used to run a quoting program, nothing else and is fairly new (3 -4 months). The quoting software seems to be a beta type release as there are nearly daily updates. The W2k is the main computer, used for accounting, email, quoting, web page management- ie the workhorse. It contains the databases for the 2 W98 computers, which are only used infrequently to produce quotes, via different software to the XP and to access emails.
Any ideas would be appreciated, before I go back to try again.
TIA
