The printer is connected via parallel and I am using XP's built in firewall but with the necessary ports open to do "file and printer sharing". The sharing aspect seems okay as my wife can print from her laptop without any issues.
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Hello, I hope this is an appropriate forum as it might be a "networking" issue or even an "OS" issue but here goes.
Bottom line is- I can't print from my non-XP computers on my home network. My printer, (HP Deskjet 722C, with latest driver), is on my main computer, (3.2P4HT/2G-RAM on Intel D875PBZ with WinXP-Pro/SP1), and works fine. Wife's computer, (Toshiba laptop 2.0Cel/512-RAM with WinXP-Home/SP1), can also print to my printer through the LAN just fine.
I have 4 more computers on my LAN that all "recognize" and list the network printer as their default printer, but fail when I try to print something. I just get a pop-up that tells me the print "Failed" with options to cancel or try again. One of these is a Sony laptop AMD-K6III/256 with WinME, (I need it for my old scanner because there are no XP drivers for my old scanner). Two of the other computers are Win98SE computers that I keep online for archiving data. The final computer is another WinME OS on a PIII866/512 that I use to use as the main computer before I built this one. The PIII use to have this printer directly connected to it and worked great. Now, since being connected only through my local LAN, I can't print from it either. All the computers have the latest drivers available but that is as far as I have gotten.
I set up a similar LAN at work with the only difference being that the printer, (HP Deskjet 970), is hooked directly to an older Win98 box and the newer computer that has WinXP on it can print to it just fine through the LAN. Both LANs are similar in that the boxes hook to a 4-port switch in a router.
I guess the real question is whether this is an "OS" issue, a "network" issue, or maybe a newer printer would help. I could probably move the printer to one of the older computers but as a matter of convinience, I like it where I have it now.
I'm hoping someone has a work-around that will make my setup function. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. thanks

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