Printer Sharing

wjcros · 01-30-2006, 05:38 AM

Ok so i am setting up a home network for a friend and one pc is running 98 with a lexmark x5200. This is the printer i want to share. Then the other computer is running xp this is the computer that needs to print over the network. I have installed the microsoft file and printer sharing add on. And i have made the printer a shared printer under windows 98. But still no luck. Any Suggestions? Thanks

**SFR** · 01-30-2006, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by wjcros

Ok so i am setting up a home network for a friend and one pc is running 98 with a lexmark x5200. This is the printer i want to share. Then the other computer is running xp this is the computer that needs to print over the network. I have installed the microsoft file and printer sharing add on. And i have made the printer a shared printer under windows 98. But still no luck. Any Suggestions? Thanks

After you go to My Network Places on the XP machine and run "set up a small home or office network" wizard, take your XP CD and go to the win '98 machine and insert the disk. You will be able to run the same wizard on the 98 machine. After a reboot of both machines, it should work.

wjcros · 02-07-2006, 06:05 AM

okay so i've done those steps and it does work on the other pcs in the house, which run windows me. but i still cannot get the xp box to print to the printer on the 98 box. it displays the printer and when i print to it from the xp box the 98 box shows that the page is spooling but nothing comes from the printer. i think it may be a driver problem. but if so how do i install the 98 lexmark driver on to the xp machine

01-30-2006, 05:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
wjcros New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2	Printer Sharing Ok so i am setting up a home network for a friend and one pc is running 98 with a lexmark x5200. This is the printer i want to share. Then the other computer is running xp this is the computer that needs to print over the network. I have installed the microsoft file and printer sharing add on. And i have made the printer a shared printer under windows 98. But still no luck. Any Suggestions? Thanks

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02-07-2006, 06:05 AM	#3 (permalink)
wjcros New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2	okay so i've done those steps and it does work on the other pcs in the house, which run windows me. but i still cannot get the xp box to print to the printer on the 98 box. it displays the printer and when i print to it from the xp box the 98 box shows that the page is spooling but nothing comes from the printer. i think it may be a driver problem. but if so how do i install the 98 lexmark driver on to the xp machine