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Printer problems with WinNT

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by remus87

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I have two HP printers (a deskjet 970cxi and a designjet250c) both connected to lpt1 on win98se clients. They are set up as shared printers on the network. All other win98se clients on the network can print to them with no problems as can win2k clients. I am having a problem printing to them with clients running winnt 4 SP6. I get an error 'the filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect'. I am using the latest drivers on all systems and the nt4 clients can see the printers. The ports are mapped to the correct printers and the printers work if set up on the local winnt machines. Why will they not print over the network?

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by blitzer

Ok, here are a couple of suggestions, check that you can specify additional printer drivers, not sure with Win98, but this is a feature of NT and 2K, see if you can add additional drivers for NT. Another option you should check, is if the NT machines are using UNC paths, enable and disable them and test, I've found some strange outcomes from network connection issues by doing this, including printing. One option is to intall the printer, using NT drivers on the NT machine, then changing the port to point to your network printer, this way you are using NT drivers, I'm not sure that 98 would cause some problems with this. See if you can roll back to SPK5, this may not be an option, but the spooler seems to work "better" with SKP5.

See if any of those ideas help.

Daniel.

by remus87

Turned out that the problem arose from the fact that the printer share on the win98 machine had a password on it!! With no password it prints ok. If I change it from share level access to user level access and assign users rights to print to it, all can print ok. Don't know why but it works.

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