Davy
Sat May 03 13:10:59 PDT 2008
Davy <me@removeallthistextchobham.org.uk> wrote in
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> I am trying to follow the microsoft instructions for
> adding a remote printer to an XP machine:
> - click add printer
> - tick local printer
> - install XP drivers etc.
>
> The problem is that the 'local printer' option is
greyed
> out. If I take the network printer option then the
printer
> on the Win2000 pc is found but I am not given the
option
> of loading XP drivers.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Davy
>
Right, I've sorted this.
'local printer' is grey-out because in XP one needs
adminstrator priveleges to install a local printer.
Bruce Sanderson gives an excellent guide on how to
install a printer on a local machine served by a print
server running an older version of windows;
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/AddDrivertoOldOS.htm
Installing Additional Drivers on an older version of
Windows
When you create a network printer, and the printer is
shared from a Windows operating system in the NT family
(e.g. Windows NT 4, 2000, XP), the printer driver can be
automatically installed on the client from the print
server. This is part of the feature called Point and
Print. In many cases, the operating system version of
the client computer is not the same as that of the print
server hosting the printer. In these cases, the printer
driver for the client operating system must be added to
the print server as a Additional Driver.
The dialog for adding Additional Drivers this has a
fixed idea about what other operating systems exist.
So, if your client is Windows XP and the print server is
NT 4.0, you can't add an Additional Drivers for a
printer for your client using the dialog on the Windows
NT 4.0 print server. However, you can install
Additional Drivers for Windows XP clients on the Windows
NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 print server from a Windows XP
computer.
The same applies to installing Additional Drivers for
Windows 2000 clients on a Windows NT 4.0 print server.
Note that it doesn't matter what edition of the various
operating systems are on either the client or server
(e.g. the client could be Windows 2000 Server and the
server could be Windows NT 4.0 Workstation).
Basically, what you do is, on a client workstation that
has the "new" OS, temporarily add a local printer on a
convenient port (e.g. lpt1) and install the Windows 2000
or XP printer driver. Then you connect to the Printers
and Faxes (or Printers) folder on the print server from
that same client and install the just installed driver
as an Additional Driver.
Here's the details. These instructions are for adding a
Windows XP printer driver to Windows NT 4 print server.
If the client is Windows 2000 or the print server is
Windows 2000, the actual dialogs may be slightly
different, but the process is essentially the same.
Logon at a client computer with a user account that has
administrative rights and permissions on the print
server computer.
Click Start, Printers and Faxes
Right click in an empty space in the right pane and
select Add Printer
Click Next
Select the Local Printer? radio button, remove the check
mark from Automatically detect and install my Plug and
Play printer; click Next
Leave the LPT1: port selected; click Next. You will be
adding the printer as if the print device is on the
local computer?s parallel port, then deleting the
printer later. This is just a way to get the XP driver
installed, which is a pre-requisite to adding it as an
Additional Driver on the server.
If you are going to use the printer driver delivered
with Windows XP, select the appropriate make and model.
If you have downloaded a printer driver from a web site
or have the driver on a floppy or CD, click Have Disk,
Browse and navigate to wherever the driver is.
Depending on how the driver is packaged, you may get a
list of several printer models; in that case, select the
appropriate printer model.
Follow through to the end of the Add Printer wizard
(don't share the printer and don't ask for a test print)
Delete the local printer you just added; the printer
driver is now installed and will NOT be deleted when you
delete the local printer
Click Start, Run
Key \\printservername and press Enter
Scroll down in the left pane and click Printers and
Faxes in the Windows Explorer window that opens
Right click on the printer you want to add the
Additional Drivers for and select Properties
If you get told that a suitable driver has not been
installed on your computer for this printer, click Yes
and navigate to the same folder you used in step 7. If
there are multiple printer models in the list, select
the same you used in step 7
Select the Sharing tab
Select the Shared radio button
Click the Additional Drivers button
Add a check mark to the Windows 2000 or XP item in the
list; click OK
If you get a dialog box asking you to insert disks,
click the Browse button and navigate to the same folder
you specified in step 7; click OK
If you get a message box saying that ?? the operation
could not be completed??. Click OK to clear the message
box. Go back to step . For some unknown reason, this
process sometimes fails the first time, but succeeds on
the second attempt.
Click Close
thanks for all your help to a novice
David