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by janm

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I have one PC running Win 2000 all others on Win 98. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to add the network printer to the Win 2000 PC. It was easy to add the local printer to LPT1 on this PC but I cannot find the network printer anywhere. I have tried the obvious routes through "add printer" but to no avail. This seems a more complicated process in Win2K than Win 98. Any idea's?

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by ewgny

Without using a print server, and adding the network printer directly to the PC.
Add a printer - select local (clear the search option) - create a new port using the tcp/ip selection - put in the IP of your network printer - continue with the driver install

by janm

The local printer option is "greyed out" and my only option is Network printer.

by jschein

in 2k, if it is greyed out, you are not logged in as an admin...

If it is shared on a 98 machine as "printer"

You would go into the 2k machine and say add network printer - select local port and type in:

\\computername\printersharename

Computername - name assigned to the computer

Printersharename - the sharename you assigned that printer share.

by lcampbell

You should be able to browse to the PC that is hosting (print serving) for the printer. It will show up on that machine. Double click it and it should install the drivers to your 2K machine.
If it doesn't then it wasn't configured properly when it was installed. You will need to also make sure that the users permissions are all there. Everyone should have access to the printer in its' security properties.

by omie

If the network printer is connected to the Win98 PC... your out of luck. It seems that Win2k can't see the win98 computers in the network.

The only thing you could do is to get a Print Server.

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