M
Murphil
I have high speed Internet thru a cable modem connected to the WAN port on my
router (i.e. physical Fire Wall). 2 PCs are connected to the LAN ports on the
router to form a private home network. One of the PCs is a new Windows Vista
Home Premium PC that has a local inkjet printert connected directly to it via
a USB connection. This printer works very well in response to print requests
from the Vista PC. The other PC is an "old" Windows 98 PC that is located in
a different room of the house and has its own local inkjet printer connected
to the PC via a serial connection. Each PC can see the other one over the
LAN, including shared files and the shared (Vista) printer. It really works
like a charm. However, I can not seem to get printer sharing to work over the
LAN. I've configured the printer on the Vista PC for network sharing (without
password control), and the Vista seems to acknowledge this by showing the
printer as a shared device. Strangely, the Win98 can "see" the shared Vista
printer on the LAN, but it is unable to get this printer to print anything. I
haven't done anything else, such as install the software for the Vista
printer on to the Win98 PC. Any attempts to print to the Vista's printer from
the Win98 PC, over the LAN, gets no response - not even an error message.
Although, the print job does seem to appear in the print cue (which I have to
delete manually every time it refuses to print). Any suggestions for getting
the shared Vista printer to print from the Win98 PC, over the LAN, would be
very much appreciated.
router (i.e. physical Fire Wall). 2 PCs are connected to the LAN ports on the
router to form a private home network. One of the PCs is a new Windows Vista
Home Premium PC that has a local inkjet printert connected directly to it via
a USB connection. This printer works very well in response to print requests
from the Vista PC. The other PC is an "old" Windows 98 PC that is located in
a different room of the house and has its own local inkjet printer connected
to the PC via a serial connection. Each PC can see the other one over the
LAN, including shared files and the shared (Vista) printer. It really works
like a charm. However, I can not seem to get printer sharing to work over the
LAN. I've configured the printer on the Vista PC for network sharing (without
password control), and the Vista seems to acknowledge this by showing the
printer as a shared device. Strangely, the Win98 can "see" the shared Vista
printer on the LAN, but it is unable to get this printer to print anything. I
haven't done anything else, such as install the software for the Vista
printer on to the Win98 PC. Any attempts to print to the Vista's printer from
the Win98 PC, over the LAN, gets no response - not even an error message.
Although, the print job does seem to appear in the print cue (which I have to
delete manually every time it refuses to print). Any suggestions for getting
the shared Vista printer to print from the Win98 PC, over the LAN, would be
very much appreciated.