Sharing a laserjet 1300

[viciousdogs]

I have a laserjet 1300 connected to a Windows XP Pro machine. I want to share the printer so it can be used by a Windows NT 4 machine but I keep running into problems.

If I try to load the NT4 drivers from the HP installation disk as alternate drivers on the XP machine I get the error "Windows cannot locate a suitable printer driver. Contact your administrator for help locating and installing a suitable driver."

If I try to connect to the printer from the NT machine I get the messages "The server on which the printer resides does not have a suitable hp laserjet 1300 PCL 6 printer driver installed. Click ok if you wish to install the driver on your local machine." and "Printer driver setup error: The printer driver is unknown."

If I try to install the NT drivers supplied on the HP installation CD onto the NT machine I get printer driver cannot be found messages.

I am able to connect to the printer from other XP machines.

Is it even possible to share this printer to an NT machine?

 

[hpwizzard]

Try to use the PCL 5e driver instead of the PCL 6 as the PCL 5e seems to be more compatible running on cross-platform or mixed OS. Install the driver according to :

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00064491

 

[viciousdogs]

Should this be done on the XP machine or the NT machine (or both)?

 

[hpwizzard]

Install the PCL 5e point and print driver on the PC that hosts the printer in this case the one with Win XP.