Sharing a workstation printer on W2k

I am having problems sharing a printer on a windows 2000 pro station. The printer installes ok, and has a “ready” status, but on other stations and even its own netuse, it shows up as disconnected. When I try to print a test page, jobs show in the queue and keep looping, in other words re-printing, but nothing prints. Also in printer properties it I added it to directory services, and it says that it is “in progress”