sharing a printer on a XP pro to win95 machines

[Guest]

At my work a have a network with mostly Win XP pro machines and a server
running Windows 2003. Allt the XP Pro machines are part of the domain. Then i
got 3 machines running win 95 and a printer that doesn't support win95
directly. I now have an old machine running win98 sharing the printer to both
win95 an XP. The problem with the win98 is that it's extremly unstable, it
crashes 2-3 times/day (nice printer server huh?). One other thing that it
does is when printing landscape from Excel on one of the XP-machine it
doesn't turn it the right way.
So i would like to be able to share the printer from one of the XP pro
machines to the win95 machines.

 

[John McGaw]

At my work a have a network with mostly Win XP pro machines and a server
running Windows 2003. Allt the XP Pro machines are part of the domain. Then i
got 3 machines running win 95 and a printer that doesn't support win95
directly. I now have an old machine running win98 sharing the printer to both
win95 an XP. The problem with the win98 is that it's extremly unstable, it
crashes 2-3 times/day (nice printer server huh?). One other thing that it
does is when printing landscape from Excel on one of the XP-machine it
doesn't turn it the right way.
So i would like to be able to share the printer from one of the XP pro
machines to the win95 machines.

Have you considered simply installing a cheap hardware print server? I use a
Netgear PS101 http://www.netgear.com/products/details/PS101.php on my home
network to save myself the aggravation of printer sharing through the OS and
it is so amazingly simply I can't understand why everyone doesn't change
over. Cheap too even if you were to pay full retail but it is available from
many online sources so that shouldn't be necessary.
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