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HP 722C Printer Sharing
Hi. I see a lot of us are having fun with Windows XP.
I am trying to share an HP 722c printer which is connected to my desktop running WinXp.Home Edition. I upgraded the desktop to WinXp. I have a laptop running Win98. Before the upgrade, I was sharing the printer just fine through my Linksys router. My laptop can see the pc, folders and the printer but I cannot print over the network from the laptop running Win98. The printer prints fine directly from the pc with WinXp. I ran the wizard on both computers. When I try to print a test page from the laptop, nothing happens. If I try to install a driver on the laptop (do I need one on the laptop ?) the driver can't be found on the WinXp cd or my Win98 cd. Please advise. Thanks. |
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HP 722C Printer Sharing
Download the 98 drivers from the HP website at http://tinyurl.com/9zhn (to
the XP PC!) Expand them into a Temporary Folder (remember the name!)..... if the install automatically starts after the expansion, cancel it, it wouldn't work on an XP PC anyway, it should just tell you it's the wrong O/S. On the XP PC, go into the Control Panel and click on Printers & Faxes. Right click on the printer and click the Sharing tab. Ensure it's set for sharing correctly. Just below this, there's a button for Additional Drivers. Click it. Put the check mark in the 98/ME box and hit OK.... the installer will look for the drivers (which it won't find by itself)... point it towards that temporary folder you just created and they'll be installed. Now go back to the 98 PC..... Click to Add a Printer.... Add a A Network Printer.... it will be at \\XPPC\xpprinter where XPPC is the name of the XP PC and xpprinter is the shared name of the printer on the XP PC. Hope this helps Cari www.coribright.com "JA" wrote in message ... Hi. I see a lot of us are having fun with Windows XP. I am trying to share an HP 722c printer which is connected to my desktop running WinXp.Home Edition. I upgraded the desktop to WinXp. I have a laptop running Win98. Before the upgrade, I was sharing the printer just fine through my Linksys router. My laptop can see the pc, folders and the printer but I cannot print over the network from the laptop running Win98. The printer prints fine directly from the pc with WinXp. I ran the wizard on both computers. When I try to print a test page from the laptop, nothing happens. If I try to install a driver on the laptop (do I need one on the laptop ?) the driver can't be found on the WinXp cd or my Win98 cd. Please advise. Thanks. |
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HP 722C Printer Sharing
-----Original Message----- Download the 98 drivers from the HP website at http://tinyurl.com/9zhn (to the XP PC!) Expand them into a Temporary Folder (remember the name!)..... if the install automatically starts after the expansion, cancel it, it wouldn't work on an XP PC anyway, it should just tell you it's the wrong O/S. On the XP PC, go into the Control Panel and click on Printers & Faxes. Right click on the printer and click the Sharing tab. Ensure it's set for sharing correctly. Just below this, there's a button for Additional Drivers. Click it. Put the check mark in the 98/ME box and hit OK.... the installer will look for the drivers (which it won't find by itself)... point it towards that temporary folder you just created and they'll be installed. Now go back to the 98 PC..... Click to Add a Printer.... Add a A Network Printer.... it will be at \\XPPC\xpprinter where XPPC is the name of the XP PC and xpprinter is the shared name of the printer on the XP PC. Hope this helps Cari www.coribright.com "JA" wrote in message ... Hi. I see a lot of us are having fun with Windows XP. I am trying to share an HP 722c printer which is connected to my desktop running WinXp.Home Edition. I upgraded the desktop to WinXp. I have a laptop running Win98. Before the upgrade, I was sharing the printer just fine through my Linksys router. My laptop can see the pc, folders and the printer but I cannot print over the network from the laptop running Win98. The printer prints fine directly from the pc with WinXp. I ran the wizard on both computers. When I try to print a test page from the laptop, nothing happens. If I try to install a driver on the laptop (do I need one on the laptop ?) the driver can't be found on the WinXp cd or my Win98 cd. Please advise. Thanks. . Thanks for your response. I forgot to mention when I try to install Win98 additional driver on the desk top with XP, I get an error message indicating that the driver is not digitally signed and cannot continue, will not install. The driver is in disk 1 of 720C folder. The printer is properly shared. The network printer seems to be installed ok on the Win98 laptop. The printer is visible over the network but I can't print to it. Also I get a prompt to set up the printer before I can use it over the network but this printer is not on the list. Thanks. |
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HP 722C Printer Sharing
-----Original Message----- Download the 98 drivers from the HP website at http://tinyurl.com/9zhn (to the XP PC!) Expand them into a Temporary Folder (remember the name!)..... if the install automatically starts after the expansion, cancel it, it wouldn't work on an XP PC anyway, it should just tell you it's the wrong O/S. On the XP PC, go into the Control Panel and click on Printers & Faxes. Right click on the printer and click the Sharing tab. Ensure it's set for sharing correctly. Just below this, there's a button for Additional Drivers. Click it. Put the check mark in the 98/ME box and hit OK.... the installer will look for the drivers (which it won't find by itself)... point it towards that temporary folder you just created and they'll be installed. Now go back to the 98 PC..... Click to Add a Printer.... Add a A Network Printer.... it will be at \\XPPC\xpprinter where XPPC is the name of the XP PC and xpprinter is the shared name of the printer on the XP PC. Hope this helps Cari www.coribright.com "JA" wrote in message ... Hi. I see a lot of us are having fun with Windows XP. I am trying to share an HP 722c printer which is connected to my desktop running WinXp.Home Edition. I upgraded the desktop to WinXp. I have a laptop running Win98. Before the upgrade, I was sharing the printer just fine through my Linksys router. My laptop can see the pc, folders and the printer but I cannot print over the network from the laptop running Win98. The printer prints fine directly from the pc with WinXp. I ran the wizard on both computers. When I try to print a test page from the laptop, nothing happens. If I try to install a driver on the laptop (do I need one on the laptop ?) the driver can't be found on the WinXp cd or my Win98 cd. Please advise. Thanks. . when I try to install Win98 additional driver on the desk top, I get an error message indicating that the driver is not digitally signed and cannot continue.How do I install the driver if WinXP won't let me ? Any ideas ? |
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