Network printer not recognized

[Guest]

I work in an office that has about 15 work stations. My problem is there are
a couple of PC's that will not print to a printer on the network. I thought
the problem might be a conflict between XP and 98, because the printer is
physically attached to a PC that is running 98, however another workgroup
computer is running xp as well and works flawlessly with the printer. The
problem PC "sees" the printer when i browse the network, but it will not
connect to it or let me add it. When i try and manually enter a IP and port
for the printer, it says port name not valid etc. Im not a beginner with PC's
and IT, so please don't reply with basics. Thanks,

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Can you add it using:

\\Nameof98PC\NameofPrinter

where Nameof98PC is the name of the Windows 98 PC on the network and
NameofPrinter is the shared name of the printer on the network?

 

[Guest]

No because it asks me to specify both an "address" and a "port". I put the
\\nameof98pc\nameofprinter in, but i do not know what the IP address would be
for the printer. It is not the IP address of the 98PC, i have tried that. The
printer does not show me an IP address when i look through its configs. Also
i have tried adding the printer as a local rather than network, on the
troubled PC, and that gives me no luck.