Sharing Win XP Printer with Win 95

[ukexpat]

I have a home network based around a Linksys 8 port router/hub. Main machine runs Win XP Pro. I want to share the Win XP box's printer with a Win 95 laptop.

Printer is set up as shared on Win XP box, but I cannot find it on the laptop when it is attached to the network. Any ideas?

TIA.

 

[Bytes Back]

On the xp machine make the printers share name the ip address of the the machine. So it would look like

\\xpmachine\192,168.0.1

I have done this because I had the same problem, it works, just don't ask me why.

 

[ukexpat]

Thanks for the tip -- unfortunately when I try to use that form as the share name on the XP box, I get an error message that the name cannot contain / \ or . etc

 

[Twink]

make sure the machine name, and share names have no spaces, and aren't larger than 8 characters. 98 boxes can't seem to seem them, but XP and 2k machines can

 

[ukexpat]

OK I'll try that. Thanks.

 

[ukexpat]

It worked!!

That did it -- thanks so much. I still cannot browse to the printer but entering the path by name (having changed the share name to less than 8 characters in length on the Win XP box) worked like a charm.

The sooner I get rid of this Win 95 box the better!!

 

[Bytes Back]

Whoops I didn't explain that very well

When you share your printer it will automaticaly give it a share name, mine comes up as "Epson Stylus Colour 880"

Just call it 192,168.0.1 or whatever the ip address of the machine, the slashes will show up by themselves