Windows 2000 drivers on NT4 Server

[outonalimb]

I need to be able to share a laser printer on our NT4 Server. The problem is that all our clients are Windows 2000 PC's and need a Windows 2000 driver to work properly.

Is there a way of doing this without having to upgrade to Windows 2000 Server?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

 

[blipper]

the drivers need to be installed locally as a network printer. It shouldnt matter what type of operating system you use.

 

[outonalimb]

Let me explain further. Our laser printer is attached to a HP Jetdirect printer server on our network. I then installed the printer on our NT4 Server ans shared it as MFC9880.

This printer is now available for our NT4 Workstation clients. i.e. I can add the printer as a network printer in the Add Printer wizard.

However, the printer driver is for NT4 only and doesn't seem to work properly when installed on a Windows 2000 machine.

I need to get Windows 2000 drivers on our server so I can share the printer among Windows 2000 Pro machines.

 

[wolluf]

suspect you'll need to install 2k drivers locally on all 2k workstations before you can get this to work, if NT drivers don't work on 2k.