Can't print to shared printer

[tbone134]

Hi

I have shared a HP Deskjet 1125C printer connected to LPT1. It prints fine from the machine it's shared from. I can also add the printer to other machines no problem but when they print to the printer it comes up with a message "an error has occured while printing to hpdesk etc"

I tried reinstalling the printer and all the other obvious things. But am now at a loss - I can't understand why the others will not print when they have no trouble seeing the printer on the network.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Tony Wood

 

[mpnut]

You will need to capture the printer port. There should be a button on the Details screen to do this. You will just need to put in the path to the printer. Example "\\PCname\printer_share_name"

 

[jrbarnett]

Hi,

Another point that if you are using old DOS apps, you will need to map the printer to an LPT port, then let the application print to this - Windows then intercepts the connection and forwards it to the host machine.

John

 

[lupini]

I have a network printer mapped to an LPT port on a network workstation which I want to unmap so I can use the local LPT1 for a different printer - the DOS program for which it was mapped no longer requires the direct link so I want to free up the port but the setting is rewritten when I logon after removing the setting using net use lpt1 /delete. How can I do this?

Thanks.

 

[jrbarnett]

Hi,

You should be able to go to the printers control panel, right click on the network printer and adjust the properties so it goes to a different port or is just accessible via its UNC name.

John