95\98\NT *****peer\printer

[JeanneD]

I just added a 4th pc with NT to my peer-to-peer network that has 2-95 pcs and one 98 pc already (am going to dual boot with Linux, which I haven't even tried yet)
Anyway I can see my shared epson800 printer on the 98 pc fine in the network and installed the drivers, but when I try to print it gives me an error "filename, dir name or volume label syntax is incorrect" can you not connect to a printer on a 98 pc? ..and I can read files in NT from the other pcs fine...=)
I thought I'd ask anyway...
I work with NT & printers with novell all the time at work, but do not have much exp with NT in this environment...any help would be appreciated...
am also having a problem getting my usr 56k recognized...(doesn't show a com port even when I added it manually)



[This message has been edited by JeanneD (edited April 25, 1999).]

[jrobinson]

Have you tried Doug's Network Pages?

http://hdallen.home.mindspring.com/

I suggested it to somebody a couple of weeks ago and it worked for them.

[cttech]

I have found similar problems with other Epson inkjet printers. The problem is that it wants to use the print manager supplied by epson. In order to use this, the printer must be Physically hooked up to the PC. With the Epson 640, what worked is reming out the print manager in the system.ini file, and then turning off bidirectional ability in the printer propeties. Don't know if this option is availible with the 800 series, but thought I'd give it a mention.

[CompuDocs]

Jeanne,

I have an Epson SC800 hooked up on my 95/98 peer to peer network and it does work, this is what I did. On a client machine, install the printer software to LPT1, reboot. Then go to the properties of the Epson, change the LPT1 to the network share.
//Host/"Epson" (whatever the Epson is shared as.
Then, set the client spool manager to spool to the hosts spool directory.

Charlie

[JeanneD]

thanx I'll try it, let you know...
appreciater it

[stevet]

I had to do some similar tweaking with an HP Deskjet 1000c on a LANtastic/Win95 network. In order for it to work, the HP had to be installed with "Generic/Text Only" drivers on the host PC and then shared on the network. Then on the remote PCs I installed the printer with the HP drivers and pointed it to the generic printer on the network. Worked great.

Steve