I believe that you have to have the users that are using the printer added
as users on the XP machine.
and set the security to give them access.  2000 allows a "connect as" option
to print, but don;t know much about XP.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Irena Thomas" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 7:24 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] remote printer


> Hello All;
>
> We have a printer HP 5P hooked to LPT1 on a PC with windows 98se. Print
> sharing is enabled, we use this printer from a few remote (win9x)
> computers. We use TCP/IP protocol.
>
> Problem: we got a new computer with windows XP Pro. The computer has the
> same TCPIP subnet as the printer (win98) host and the same workgroup.
> Print sharing is enabled. We installed printer driver on XP. The XP
> station sees the right path to the printer \\socwork\HP-soc  and printer
> wizard finishes installation without a problem, the added printer icon
> has a 'ready' status. Yet, we cannot print, even a test page.
>

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