NT printer-XP PC

[slicardie]

Hi. I have a NT 4.0 Server with an HP Laserjet 6mp printer, and a Win95 PC with a HP Laserjet 6L. I also have a laptop running on WinXP Home, and it can print on the 6L printer, but it doesn't recognize the 6mp printer. When I try to add the 6mp printer, I get an error message like this: "Windows can't connect to the printer. The driver you are trying to install is not compatible with XP". What can I do? I've tried downloading the drivers available in the HP homepage, but they don't seem to work...

 

[pddxr]

They have 2 drivers for XP for that printer:
lj631en.exe (PCL5 driver) and
lj631en.exe (Post Script driver)

Download the lj631en.exe to your desktop. Run it and click Unzip. This will unzip the files to a folder on your C: called lj631en.

Add a local printer. Make sure that you don't have Windows detect it automatically. When is shows the built in list of printer drivers click the Have Disk button. Click Browse and then go to the folder c:\lj631en Click ok and continue until you are finished.

 

[slicardie]

I've already used both of them -and none of them solved my problem-. The question is: how do I do to redirect that printer to a network location?? Remember that I am running XP on my laptop -and that the printer I want to use is at the LPT1 port of a NT 4.0 server-, and since if I install (on XP) the printer as a local one, there's no way -I think- to redirect it to a network location.