Trying to add printer on remove system......

[stevek]

Trying to add printer on another networked system. Things seem to go ok
until 'Connect to Printer: You are about to ..... viruses or scripts.....'

Enter "Yes" and "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The driver that
you are trying to install is not compatible with Windows XP."

What the heck does this mean? Any printer used with XP must be on
another XP machine? Any help?

Other computer: WinNT workstation with HP DeskJet710C

 

[GTS]

If the shared printer was attached to another XP workstation yours would be
able to copy the driver to itself. Since it is attached to an NT computer,
an XP driver cannot be provided this way. (Why would you assume an NT host
has an XP driver available?) You need to download an XP driver. Then when
you install the shared printer and are asked for the driver, navigate to the
directory where you placed the downloaded one. (Some printers,
particularly, some ink jets may require running an executable to install and
require a different process than noted above. If that's the case post again
for further info.)

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

the NT4 710C driver from HP will cause the XP client to bugcheck, therefore
the driver is blocked from installing on XP.

; Mapping of Broken OEM printer driver model names to in-box model names
;
;
; This section gives the model name mapping.
;
; 1) The syntax is
;
; "<Broken OEM model name>" = "<In-box model name>", WksLevel, SrvLevel,
"mm/dd/yyyy", Unidrv5.4
;
; WksLevel is the warning level on a workstation: 2 = warn, 1=block
; SrvLevel is the warning level on a server: 2 = warn, 1=block
; If the date field is used, only drivers with core driver DLLs older
than this date will be deleted.
; Make sure year is given in a 4 digit format (i.e. not 98 but 1998)
; Make sure date field is separated with a comma.
; If there are multiple entries for one single driver to indicate that an
older version
; is blocked and a newer only warned, make sure these entries are sorted
by ascending date
; Unidrv5.4 indicates whether there exists a Unidrv 5.4 driver for a
warned or blocked driver.
; If the Unidrv 5.4 field exists, a value of 1 indicates that a Unidrv
5.4 does exist
;
; 2) In case there is no In-box support for the broken OEM Printer, the
; printer driver will be deleted. The syntax is
;
; "<Broken OEM model name>" = "", WksLevel, SrvLevel
;
; 3) If the driver has to be deleted but only on the basis of the date
; (as explained above) the syntax is
;
; "<Broken OEM model name>" = "", WksLevel, SrvLevel, "mm/dd/yyyy"
;


"HP DeskJet 710C Series" = "HP DeskJet 710C", 1, 1

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

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[stevek]

First of all, I did not assume anything. I tried installing a printer on
a XP system that resides on a remote system (NT). This 'was' a no
problem task (using remote printer) just a while back. After trying
multiple times and trying to follow error messages I decided to try
getting help.

1. I believe when one follows software directions (XP-system) to the
letter, one should be reasonably certain system should work or give some
type of directions as to how to get to work.

I went to HP but the site informs that the driver for XP in on the XP
install disks (which it is).
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lang=en&lc=en&cc=us&docname=bpd09005&lang=en&cc=us#

However, even when I install the HP driver on the XP system first, from
the install disk to the XP system, XP will not use for the networked
system. THUS THE QUESTION / request for assistance.

 

[stevek]

I do not follow this at all. Do not know where to start, what to edit?
etc...

This section gives the model name mapping. (What section?)

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

this is from \windows\inf\printupg.inf. The HP driver will cause your XP
system to reboot. You do not want this driver on your XP system.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.