Sharing a USB printer

[Anthony W]

Anybody know of any issues sharing a USB printer on a peer-to-peer LAN
in a mostly XP environment (with one Vista computer.)

Tony

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Works for me.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 2/11/2008 7:58 PM, and on a whim, Anthony W
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Anybody know of any issues sharing a USB printer on a peer-to-peer LAN
in a mostly XP environment (with one Vista computer.)

Tony

Only the obvious. The printer doesn't work when the workstation it's
attached to is off. ;-)


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[Anthony W]

Only the obvious. The printer doesn't work when the workstation it's
attached to is off. ;-)

I'm working on a network for a client that has a Xerox Phaser and
Samsung ML-1740 laser printer both USB connected; they can be shared but
cannot be connected to. However another computer on the LAN has a
Cannon printer on a LPT port that all computers on the network can print
to. These 2 printers show as on line but when I try to print a test
page from properties, I get an error the test page could not be sent. I
can check the print queue but nothing gets that far.

I've done all the usual troubleshooting and cleaned up the temp files. I
was hoping the problem would be a bi-directional setting in the driver
like on the old desk jet printers (but no luck there.) I can't find any
useful article in the MS KB and even less on the Samsung and Xerox
support sites.

To start with there was a rights issue which I have resolved but this
connectivity problem has me stumped.

Tony

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 2/11/2008 10:32 PM, and on a whim, Anthony W
pounded out on the keyboard:

I'm working on a network for a client that has a Xerox Phaser and
Samsung ML-1740 laser printer both USB connected; they can be shared but
cannot be connected to. However another computer on the LAN has a
Cannon printer on a LPT port that all computers on the network can print
to. These 2 printers show as on line but when I try to print a test
page from properties, I get an error the test page could not be sent. I
can check the print queue but nothing gets that far.

I've done all the usual troubleshooting and cleaned up the temp files. I
was hoping the problem would be a bi-directional setting in the driver
like on the old desk jet printers (but no luck there.) I can't find any
useful article in the MS KB and even less on the Samsung and Xerox
support sites.

To start with there was a rights issue which I have resolved but this
connectivity problem has me stumped.

Tony

Hi Tony,

Right click on the printer in Printers & Faxes and select Sharing. Under
the Additional Drivers button, are the proper system drivers checked? If
not, this will prevent driver installation. Is the share name
recognizable by all OS's? Under the Security tab, does "Everyone" have
permission to Print?

Are both the Xerox & Samsung on the same workstation? Try disconnecting
one of them for testing. Can you "see" the printer in Explorer on
another workstation (\\workstation\printersharename)?

As a last resort, try installing the drivers directly on the other
workstations with the printer CD and then connecting.

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[Anthony W]

As a last resort, try installing the drivers directly on the other
workstations with the printer CD and then connecting.

I should have mentioned it but I already did this for the Samsung
printer. The client only needs to print to this laser printer from the
other workstations and I tried to print to the Xerox just to see if I
could.

Both printers are on the same workstation and both print fine locally.
I've been all over the printer properties but everything in there is set
properly. At this point I have recommended a server but that's now for
the client to think about...

Back when Win9x was king, I was doing tech support for one of the MS sub
contractors and usually I'm pretty good with this sort of thing but this
one is just weird. I'm thinking that maybe the workstation with the
printers needs to be reinstalled. Normally once connectivity and rights
are established, sharing a printer is a snap.

Tony