Win 98 cannot See Shared XP Pro Printers

[tls9923]

I am working in a peer to peer network. I have a mixed set of clients 98, ME, XP Pro, XP Home. Right now I can see all shared printers from the XP Computers, I have some shared on computers and some on Jet Directs. The problem is one printer shared off a XP Pro machine. I can see the shared printer and files from XP Machines but when I switch to Win98/ME I can only see the shared files. I cannot see the printer. Currently running TCP\IP mainly. Any ideas? I also have a XP Pro machine with Sharing setup but cannot see it on the network, cannot even ping it. It can see everything else?

Thanks

Terrel

 

[ksquacker]

Might try installing NetBuei on the XP box and the box in question.

 

[tls9923]

I have Netbuei installed on the Win98 but cannot find to install on the Xp Pro machine. It is not listed in the protocals section.

Thanks

 

[wolluf]

If you can see shared files, TCP/IP would seem to be working. Is the printer sharename long (> 8 characters) or does it contain spaces? I think 9x/ME can have problems in either case.

PS. If you did want to install netbeui on XP -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q301041&

 

[tls9923]

Thanks I did not think about the lenght of the shared printer name.