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Win95 Print Server Problem

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by technomancer

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I'm trying to support a Win95 network with one HP printer connected on the network on a TCP/IP connection and I need to find a way to disconnect the current print server (this machine is not always on which disables printing) and setup printing directly to the TCP/IP connection. I know this can be done in NT/2000 but how do you do it in Win95?

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by ksearch

If the tcp/ip connection is directly to the printer (not to a pc, and then via parallel port), the network cable attaches directly to the printer, then the IP address is "attached" to the printer. To print to that printer, just capture a printer port and direct it to that printer via the printers ip address and not a physical pc port.

You could also install the printer (capturing the port using the ip address) on a machine that is up all the time (a server?!?) and then share that virtual printer out. Other machines just grab that printer rather than having to all capture the port.

In either case, you need to find out the ip address of the printer (usually some test print option from the printer itself will give you that), and capture the port using the IP address.

by shanghai sam

Guess I didn't make it clear...this is a Windows 95a computer network. This would work in NT/2000/XP but DOES NOT work in 95. I tried this the first day I was here. It seems that if there isn't a print server of some sort on the network, the print share doesn't work. I don't understand it, but it's frustrating me greatly. By the way, I did go and try it again, just in case I didn't do it right the first time. :)

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