Unable to print through print server to local printer

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Denis Grimard

Here's the situation.

I setup a printer on my local Win XP pro system and shared
it out. I then setup a printer on our Windows 2000 print
server to use this Win XP printer and shared it out. When
I print from the W2K print server to this shared XP
printer everything works. When I print from a third
system to the Print server using the XP systems printer it
doesn't work. If I set up a printer the same way as the
XP box but it is anything but ZP it works. The reason for
doing this type of printing is for terminal services.

To sumarize:
1. XP Pro system with a shared local printer
2. W2K Print server sharing this XP printer connection
3. 3rd system tring to print through Print server doesn't
work, but a print connection direct to XP box does.
4. This setup works for any system but an XP local shared
printer. Ie)w9x w2k

To recreate and test yourself:
1. Share a local printer on an XP box
2. On another system add a printer using this XP shared
printer and share out the new one you have created.
3. Try to print from another system to the printer you
have created on the print server.

I think it is a permission thing, but I have enabled the
guest account and all systems are in the same domain.

Thanks for any help

Denis
 
This doesn't look like a permissions thing to me (or at least, not a printer
share permission thing).

It's very important in mixed OS situations to ensure you have "compatible"
printer driver sets.

The document at
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpl13043
explains this fairly well.

Some printer drivers labelled "Windows 2000" are actually Version 2 drivers.
For Windows XP, you really should have Version 3 drivers; some of the
Version 2 drivers work OK with XP, but many don't. If you have a Version 2
driver installed on your Windows 2000 computer, you might want to update it
to the corresponding Version 3 driver.

Windows 9x computers use what amounts to a "Version 0" driver. Windows NT 4
requires Version 2 drivers. Windows 2000 can use either Version 2 or
Version 3. Windows XP is supposed to support Version 2 drivers as well, but
my experience is that many of these don't work well with Windows XP.

"Doesn't work" comes in many flavours - which one do you have (e.g. error
message, application crashes, seems to be OK, but nothing actually prints)?
 
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