Shared printer Won;t show up on network

[Pat Steele]

The share name of the printer is too long. I think the
maximum in Win98 is 12 characters. Good luck!


>-----Original Message-----
>I have an XP and two W98 computers networked on a home
>wired ethernet LAN. Everything about the network seemes
>to work fine, but I cannot get the HP printer connected
to
>the XP machine to show up on the network. It shows up
>when browsing the network from the XP machine, but not
>from the 98 machines. I have shared the printer, I
think
>correctly, and also selected the Win98 drivers to be
>available to network machines.
>
>When I try to add a network printer on the 98 machines,
>the printer does not show up when browsing the network
>tree to select the printer. It will, however, seem to
>accept it if I type in its network path maunually. Then
>it will successfully show up as an installed printer,
but
>print jobs error out when sent to it. Another curious
>symptom, the properties dialog box for this network
>printer comes up in French on one of the 98 machines. I
>am wondering if it used the wrong driver version
obtained
>from the host machine.
>
>Any of this sound familiar to anyone? Would love some
>help fixing this problem.
>.
>