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Problem with Sharing printer under NT4.0

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by eirvin

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Currently have an HP LJ 6MP shared on an NT 4.0 Workstation that is a memeber of a domain. When ever you try to add the printer to another machine across the LAN, the other workstations attempt to put the printer on LPT1. With the printer set up like this, it manages to print test pages, but nothing else. The other print jobs go into the queue for an instant, then disapear into never never land. What could be the problem here?

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by gigelul

No problem with LPT1. Check with if you don't have any other mapping to LPT1.
I think this is a driver problem. Check for an updated driver or when you add this shared printer on a workstation use option and give the original CD drivers.

by Member 32254067

this sounds like a misconfigured printer. when the printer was installed was it set up locally and then shared as a resource with a given port name???? I think somewhere down the line, one of these options may not be correctly implimented. try deleting the printer and recreating it with the latest drivers, and remmeber share the printer, and make sure it has a port name so it can be printer to... last note, is the machine that the printer is attaced to have file and print sharing enabled?

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