Problem priting from XP to shared network printer on Win2K

Hi,

Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction on this one??

Elsewhere on our simple DHCP based small LAN we have a laser printer
plugged into the parallel port of a desktop machine running Win 2000
Pro.

This printer is shared across the network. All machines can see it.

Other Windows 2000 users can see it and print to it.

HOWEVER....

Users using Windows XP, can see it, print to it,
BUT - there documents just sit and the spool and do nothing more until
they are killed off by Administrator account.
This also causes the machine sending the document to either kill the
application where printing originated, or stall/fall over completely.

Any clues??

Up until recently its been working, but this problem appeared last
week.

We have Norton Enterprise running and get updates daily.
The entire network has been checked out clena for gribblies.

:-)

James

My network has the same problem. I have a D-link router
that attaches my home network to the internet via a cable
modem. I attach to the router via wireless connection.
The router is 802.11b and my notebook is 802.11g. My
notebook can use the internet but everytime I try to print
from an application it locks the program up. The computer
that has the slave printer runs ME and my notebook has Xp.
I can print a test page from my notebook but nothing from
any other application. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction on
this one??
>
>Elsewhere on our simple DHCP based small LAN we have a
laser printer
>plugged into the parallel port of a desktop machine
running Win 2000
>Pro.
>
>This printer is shared across the network. All machines
can see it.
>
>Other Windows 2000 users can see it and print to it.
>
>HOWEVER....
>
>Users using Windows XP, can see it, print to it,
>BUT - there documents just sit and the spool and do
nothing more until
>they are killed off by Administrator account.
>This also causes the machine sending the document to
either kill the
>application where printing originated, or stall/fall over
completely.
>
>Any clues??
>
>Up until recently its been working, but this problem
appeared last
>week.
>
>We have Norton Enterprise running and get updates daily.
>The entire network has been checked out clena for gribblies.
>
>:-)
>
>James
>
>.
>

Still sitting with the same problem.

Anyone, ANYONE???! HELP!!!

:-)

James


On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:21:49 +0100, Blobby J Blobdom <blob@blob.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction on this one??
>
>Elsewhere on our simple DHCP based small LAN we have a laser printer
>plugged into the parallel port of a desktop machine running Win 2000
>Pro.
>
>This printer is shared across the network. All machines can see it.
>
>Other Windows 2000 users can see it and print to it.
>
>HOWEVER....
>
>Users using Windows XP, can see it, print to it,
>BUT - there documents just sit and the spool and do nothing more until
>they are killed off by Administrator account.
>This also causes the machine sending the document to either kill the
>application where printing originated, or stall/fall over completely.
>
>Any clues??
>
>Up until recently its been working, but this problem appeared last
>week.
>
>We have Norton Enterprise running and get updates daily.
>The entire network has been checked out clena for gribblies.
>
>:-)
>
>James
>