NT 4.00 workstation printer problem

[John]

I have a small office network where the printer is
attached to a computer running windows xp home edition.
One of the computers in the group runs windows 4.OO
workstation and I cannot print to the printer. It tells
me that the xp computer does not have the appropriate
driver to run the printer. I go into the nt computer to
install the printer and it tells me that i need to
install the driver locally since the xp computer doesn't
have the driver. I go through the steps and it ask for
the location of the driver with an .inf extension. The
driver provided by okidata doesn't have that file
extension and the computer won't accept it. I have
searched the xp disk for this file as well as the nt
disk. Where can I find this file to get the 4.00
computer to print to the printer that is attached to the
xp computer?

 

[Peter Hutchison]

I have a small office network where the printer is
attached to a computer running windows xp home edition.
One of the computers in the group runs windows 4.OO
workstation and I cannot print to the printer. It tells
me that the xp computer does not have the appropriate
driver to run the printer. I go into the nt computer to
install the printer and it tells me that i need to
install the driver locally since the xp computer doesn't
have the driver. I go through the steps and it ask for
the location of the driver with an .inf extension. The
driver provided by okidata doesn't have that file
extension and the computer won't accept it. I have
searched the xp disk for this file as well as the nt
disk. Where can I find this file to get the 4.00
computer to print to the printer that is attached to the
xp computer?

On the XP computer, click on Sharing and then on Properties, click on
Additional Drivers and tick box for 'Windows NT or 2000' and install
drivers for NT desktops.
Then when you connect you get the drivers auto installed.

Peter Hutchison
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