Printer installation and sharing

can you give a bit more information, is it a tcp/ip printer or do you want to use a LPT port

when you install the printer on the NT box you wil be given options to install other Widnwos version drivers.
A good rule of thumb is do not have spaces in your share name and do not have the name exceeb 8 characters.
You will need either your NTcd or the printer driver disk to instal lthe other printer drivers.

First step is to install the software necessary to configure a port for the printer - this could be the Microsoft TCP/IP printing software, or it could be manufacturer-specific, like HP's JetDirect printer port software. Once that's done, you then install the printer by first defining the characteristics of the port (i.e., the IP address of the printer, etc.), and then installing the appropriate drivers for your printer. At the same time, you will want to possibly install drivers for other operating systems, such as Win9x, if you have workstations with OS's other than NT or Win2K. The specific steps for doing this may differ - for example, if you are using newer HP printers with JetDirect NICs, you can use the HP software CD to install everything from the port to the printer drivers - it will walk you through the whole thing. Once all that's working, you go to the properties of the printer, and on the Sharing tab give it a share name and on the security tab define who can manage and/or print to the printer. There are other parameters you can define also, depending on what you need to do, such as availability hours, etc. Hope this helps!

Look up
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/default.asp (no spaces)
Browse thru Products and Technologies, Windows NT Server\ Resource Kits \Resource Guide Chapter 2
Under the same link also check out
Product Documentation, Nt Server 4.0 Concepts and Planning Chapter 5.

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