School computer lab w/ mult OSs cannot see printer

[kb5fet]

A teacher in my school has a printer connected to the LPT1 port of one of the computers in his room. The computers originally were only Windows 98 machines and all of the computers could access the printer. Recently more computers were added to the room and they are running Windows 2000 and XP. When he tried to load and access the printer, the 2000 machines worked fine but the XP machines could not see the printer. He tried moving the printer to a XP computer. The 2000 computers could still access the printer but now thw Windows 98 machines would not. The printer is a Xerox Docuprint N17 and it is shared for the network in all instances. Any help or suggestions on how to correct this compatibility issue would be appreciated.

Billy A. Gray

 

[Jomama46]

XP/2000 doesnt play well with 98. Try putting the printer on the 98 ws and that may work. But I would just get a print server like Axis or HP. In that way you can assign it an IP address like any other node.

Jomama

 

[kb5fet]

The printer was originally tried on the 98 ws - 2000 did fine but XP would not cooperate. We had thought of a print server for the room, but that would be out of the private pocket as the school district would not spring for such an expenditure. Thank you for the suggestion.


Billy A. Gray

 

[Jomama46]

Just to be sure you understand me, I not talking about another workstation to act as a print server but a 60 to 80 dollar device that has a parallel port on one side and an RJ45 on the other.
Ask the PTA.
Good luck!

Jomama