Sharing a printer on wireless network - problems!

Hi

I have read several posts of similar problems including one from Cari and
also referred to the article at the following site.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030619.shtml - all without any
luck. I have a laptop running XP Pro that has a printer attached. I want
to share that printer with my husband's laptop running ME. When I go to
properties, share printer, and then add the drivers for ME , even though I
have extracted the ME drivers into a temp folder and point to those drivers,
I get the message that there is no driver for the requested environment at
that location. I can see the autorun.inf file when I do a search but the
wizard isn't recognizing it evidently. How do I solve this problem so I can
share the printer?

Thanks for any help in advance, this is most frustrating and I have been
trying to resolve this for weeks.

Regards,

Unfortunately, not all printer manufacturer's are packaging drivers for all
printers so that they can be installed as "Additional Drivers".

However, the information at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterNoPP.htm might be a way around
your problem.

See also
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...370&cat=solve,

http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...=bpu01863.html
and
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...=bpu01215.html

This last article includes this statement:

"HP all-in-ones products require bi-directional communication so that the
product can send information to the computer and receive information from
the computer."

The implication is that at least some capablilities of the device will not
be available over the network. Network printing is always one direction -
from the client to the print server - there is no possibility of two way
communication with the device from the client. With devices like this,
sometimes printing will work and sometimes not, although the first HP
article implies that you should be able to print to the R80 over the
network.

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.



"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Sorry I hit the reply button too soon on the last response. I have been
trying to add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers
section
but that is when I get the message that there is no driver for the
requested
environment at the location where I extracted the ME driver to.

Thanks for your help in advance.


"Cari (MS MVP)" wrote in message
...
Add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers section....
it's
not autorun.inf you're looking for but something .inf that looks like the
name of the printer you have. Since you don't tell us, I can't download
a
similar set and check which file you should be looking for.


--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have read several posts of similar problems including one from Cari
and
also referred to the article at the following site.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030619.shtml - all without
any
luck. I have a laptop running XP Pro that has a printer attached. I
want
to share that printer with my husband's laptop running ME. When I go
to
properties, share printer, and then add the drivers for ME , even
though
I
have extracted the ME drivers into a temp folder and point to those
drivers,
I get the message that there is no driver for the requested environment
at
that location. I can see the autorun.inf file when I do a search but
the
wizard isn't recognizing it evidently. How do I solve this problem so
I
can
share the printer?

Thanks for any help in advance, this is most frustrating and I have
been
trying to resolve this for weeks.

Regards,

Unfortunately, not all printer manufacturer's are packaging drivers for all
printers so that they can be installed as "Additional Drivers".

However, the information at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterNoPP.htm might be a way around
your problem.

See also
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...370&cat=solve,

http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...=bpu01863.html
and
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...=bpu01215.html

This last article includes this statement:

"HP all-in-ones products require bi-directional communication so that the
product can send information to the computer and receive information from
the computer."

The implication is that at least some capablilities of the device will not
be available over the network. Network printing is always one direction -
from the client to the print server - there is no possibility of two way
communication with the device from the client. With devices like this,
sometimes printing will work and sometimes not, although the first HP
article implies that you should be able to print to the R80 over the
network.

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.



"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Sorry I hit the reply button too soon on the last response. I have been
trying to add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers
section
but that is when I get the message that there is no driver for the
requested
environment at the location where I extracted the ME driver to.

Thanks for your help in advance.


"Cari (MS MVP)" wrote in message
...
Add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers section....
it's
not autorun.inf you're looking for but something .inf that looks like the
name of the printer you have. Since you don't tell us, I can't download
a
similar set and check which file you should be looking for.


--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have read several posts of similar problems including one from Cari
and
also referred to the article at the following site.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030619.shtml - all without
any
luck. I have a laptop running XP Pro that has a printer attached. I
want
to share that printer with my husband's laptop running ME. When I go
to
properties, share printer, and then add the drivers for ME , even
though
I
have extracted the ME drivers into a temp folder and point to those
drivers,
I get the message that there is no driver for the requested environment
at
that location. I can see the autorun.inf file when I do a search but
the
wizard isn't recognizing it evidently. How do I solve this problem so
I
can
share the printer?

Thanks for any help in advance, this is most frustrating and I have
been
trying to resolve this for weeks.

Regards,

Add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers section.... it's
not autorun.inf you're looking for but something .inf that looks like the
name of the printer you have. Since you don't tell us, I can't download a
similar set and check which file you should be looking for.


--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have read several posts of similar problems including one from Cari and
also referred to the article at the following site.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030619.shtml - all without any
luck. I have a laptop running XP Pro that has a printer attached. I want
to share that printer with my husband's laptop running ME. When I go to
properties, share printer, and then add the drivers for ME , even though I
have extracted the ME drivers into a temp folder and point to those
drivers,
I get the message that there is no driver for the requested environment at
that location. I can see the autorun.inf file when I do a search but the
wizard isn't recognizing it evidently. How do I solve this problem so I
can
share the printer?

Thanks for any help in advance, this is most frustrating and I have been
trying to resolve this for weeks.

Regards,

Hi Cari,

Thanks so much for replying - The Printer is an HP R80 (All in one).


"Cari (MS MVP)" wrote in message
...
Add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers section.... it's
not autorun.inf you're looking for but something .inf that looks like the
name of the printer you have. Since you don't tell us, I can't download a
similar set and check which file you should be looking for.


--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have read several posts of similar problems including one from Cari
and
also referred to the article at the following site.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030619.shtml - all without
any
luck. I have a laptop running XP Pro that has a printer attached. I
want
to share that printer with my husband's laptop running ME. When I go to
properties, share printer, and then add the drivers for ME , even though
I
have extracted the ME drivers into a temp folder and point to those
drivers,
I get the message that there is no driver for the requested environment
at
that location. I can see the autorun.inf file when I do a search but
the
wizard isn't recognizing it evidently. How do I solve this problem so I
can
share the printer?

Thanks for any help in advance, this is most frustrating and I have been
trying to resolve this for weeks.

Regards,

Sorry I hit the reply button too soon on the last response. I have been
trying to add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers section
but that is when I get the message that there is no driver for the requested
environment at the location where I extracted the ME driver to.

Thanks for your help in advance.


"Cari (MS MVP)" wrote in message
...
Add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers section.... it's
not autorun.inf you're looking for but something .inf that looks like the
name of the printer you have. Since you don't tell us, I can't download a
similar set and check which file you should be looking for.


--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have read several posts of similar problems including one from Cari
and
also referred to the article at the following site.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030619.shtml - all without
any
luck. I have a laptop running XP Pro that has a printer attached. I
want
to share that printer with my husband's laptop running ME. When I go to
properties, share printer, and then add the drivers for ME , even though
I
have extracted the ME drivers into a temp folder and point to those
drivers,
I get the message that there is no driver for the requested environment
at
that location. I can see the autorun.inf file when I do a search but
the
wizard isn't recognizing it evidently. How do I solve this problem so I
can
share the printer?

Thanks for any help in advance, this is most frustrating and I have been
trying to resolve this for weeks.

Regards,

Thanks for your reply Bruce. I tried the info at the first link but forgive
my ignorance I am not sure how to come up with the name of the print server
and the printer name. My network is a Microsoft wireless network that is
called Mshome - is that the name of the print server, or is it the name of
my PC? I have tried both and get an error message that the network cannot be
found. I used the name of the printer as the second part of the string.
Nothing seems to work.

Regards,

"Bruce Sanderson" wrote in message
...
Unfortunately, not all printer manufacturer's are packaging drivers for
all
printers so that they can be installed as "Additional Drivers".

However, the information at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterNoPP.htm might be a way around
your problem.

See also

http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...370&cat=solve,


http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...=bpu01863.html
and

http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...=bpu01215.html

This last article includes this statement:

"HP all-in-ones products require bi-directional communication so that the
product can send information to the computer and receive information from
the computer."

The implication is that at least some capablilities of the device will not
be available over the network. Network printing is always one direction -
from the client to the print server - there is no possibility of two way
communication with the device from the client. With devices like this,
sometimes printing will work and sometimes not, although the first HP
article implies that you should be able to print to the R80 over the
network.

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.



"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Sorry I hit the reply button too soon on the last response. I have been
trying to add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers
section
but that is when I get the message that there is no driver for the
requested
environment at the location where I extracted the ME driver to.

Thanks for your help in advance.


"Cari (MS MVP)" wrote in message
...
Add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers section....
it's
not autorun.inf you're looking for but something .inf that looks like
the
name of the printer you have. Since you don't tell us, I can't
download
a
similar set and check which file you should be looking for.


--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have read several posts of similar problems including one from Cari
and
also referred to the article at the following site.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030619.shtml - all
without
any
luck. I have a laptop running XP Pro that has a printer attached. I
want
to share that printer with my husband's laptop running ME. When I go
to
properties, share printer, and then add the drivers for ME , even
though
I
have extracted the ME drivers into a temp folder and point to those
drivers,
I get the message that there is no driver for the requested
environment
at
that location. I can see the autorun.inf file when I do a search but
the
wizard isn't recognizing it evidently. How do I solve this problem
so
I
can
share the printer?

Thanks for any help in advance, this is most frustrating and I have
been
trying to resolve this for weeks.

Regards,

Thanks for your reply Bruce. I tried the info at the first link but forgive
my ignorance I am not sure how to come up with the name of the print server
and the printer name. My network is a Microsoft wireless network that is
called Mshome - is that the name of the print server, or is it the name of
my PC? I have tried both and get an error message that the network cannot be
found. I used the name of the printer as the second part of the string.
Nothing seems to work.

Regards,

"Bruce Sanderson" wrote in message
...
Unfortunately, not all printer manufacturer's are packaging drivers for
all
printers so that they can be installed as "Additional Drivers".

However, the information at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterNoPP.htm might be a way around
your problem.

See also

http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...370&cat=solve,


http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...=bpu01863.html
and

http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...=bpu01215.html

This last article includes this statement:

"HP all-in-ones products require bi-directional communication so that the
product can send information to the computer and receive information from
the computer."

The implication is that at least some capablilities of the device will not
be available over the network. Network printing is always one direction -
from the client to the print server - there is no possibility of two way
communication with the device from the client. With devices like this,
sometimes printing will work and sometimes not, although the first HP
article implies that you should be able to print to the R80 over the
network.

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.



"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Sorry I hit the reply button too soon on the last response. I have been
trying to add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers
section
but that is when I get the message that there is no driver for the
requested
environment at the location where I extracted the ME driver to.

Thanks for your help in advance.


"Cari (MS MVP)" wrote in message
...
Add the drivers to the XP PC under the additional drivers section....
it's
not autorun.inf you're looking for but something .inf that looks like
the
name of the printer you have. Since you don't tell us, I can't
download
a
similar set and check which file you should be looking for.


--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Donnie" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have read several posts of similar problems including one from Cari
and
also referred to the article at the following site.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030619.shtml - all
without
any
luck. I have a laptop running XP Pro that has a printer attached. I
want
to share that printer with my husband's laptop running ME. When I go
to
properties, share printer, and then add the drivers for ME , even
though
I
have extracted the ME drivers into a temp folder and point to those
drivers,
I get the message that there is no driver for the requested
environment
at
that location. I can see the autorun.inf file when I do a search but
the
wizard isn't recognizing it evidently. How do I solve this problem
so
I
can
share the printer?

Thanks for any help in advance, this is most frustrating and I have
been
trying to resolve this for weeks.

Regards,