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Printing to a W98 printer from NT4

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by peterjamesdonnelly

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I have a perplexing situation. I have a Printer shared from a Windows 98 PC which is part of a workgroup at a small remote site, an NT4 server at another site needs to be able to print to that printer. So far I have configured the NT4 server to print to the unc of the printer and it's good thus far. The problem is not that it doesn't print at all, but the data arrives to the Win98 print queue very slowly. The two sites are linked via 256k frame, it's not a WAN link speed issue, other network printers are fine. Is it to do with domain / workgroup security.

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by ninet4

I had a very similar problem with a printer I have here. We are on an NT domain, and I was sharing a printer from a Windows 2000 machine. Everyone could print to it fine, but I had this one Windows 98 machine that would trickle data over to it at a surprisingly slow rate. I tried a lot of different things, and am not sure which finally fixed the problem, but you could try them as well. On the Windows 98 machine that is sharing the printer, set the print processor to RAW. Set the computer to either print directly to the printer, or to spool and start printing after first page is spooled. Restart the computer and enter the BIOS. Change the settings for the printer port to ECP. Check the c:\windows\spool\printers directory. If there are any files there, delete them. They are traces of spooled prints that didn't delete themselves after printing. Make sure you are using a high quality bi-directional printer cable.

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