printing from win 98 ????

[J]

Monday Morn

Added Vista Business computer to network.

Moved Brother MFC 8440 to the vista computer from one of the XP comps.

The XP computers can print to the Brother printer.

The two 98 comps can find the printer, load the driver, but cannot print.


Printer sharing is on.
Folder sharing is on.
Printer is shared.
Guest account is on.


"There was an error writing to \\Vista1\borther1....
The printer is no longer available.

I have tried with the Firewall on and off.

Guidence please

J

 

[J]

Monday Morn

Added Vista Business computer to network.

Moved Brother MFC 8440 to the vista computer from one of the XP comps.

The XP computers can print to the Brother printer.

The two 98 comps can find the printer, load the driver, but cannot print.


Printer sharing is on.
Folder sharing is on.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Did you really misspell "borther" in your posting or is it a misspelling on
your network......

 

[J]

Thank you for your response.

The spell checker did not perform as expected.

Since I browse for the network printer, it is found, the driver is
installed, and it is listed in the printers window on the 98 computers, I
have not had to type "brother."

This seems to be related to networking. Thousands of messages in the
networking forum about Vista's inability to cooperate.

I can share folders on the vista computer.
I can copy files from the shared folders.

I CANNOT copy anything to the shared folders from the XP and from the 98
boxes.

As with this printer:
Add the guest account: give it complete access/privilages
Add the everyone account: give it complete access/privilages

The printer is found, displayed in the network neighborhood, but nothing can
be sent to it.
Render jobs on the VSTA comp: no joy
Render jobs on the 98 comps: no joy

And so on.

I need this to work. I have clients asking me about buying new computers
with vista. At this point I cannot recommend they do so: Shared printers,
mapped drives, automated backups between computers,....

I have read hundreds of messages about networking and printing. VERY FEW
success stories. And the solutions make not sense: change the settings for
NetBios from default to enabled. This makes no sense. And is not replicable
here.

J

 

[Dan [MSFT]]

J,

Sorry, but Microsoft no longer supports Win 9x (95, 98, 98se & ME).
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/gp/lifean18

Dan