Re: Printing problem

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:39:16 -0700

Blair wrote:

> The printer an Epson Stylus Color 880 is connected to my XP box. Both
> PCs are in the same workgroup and subnet.The printer is shown as
> shared My network is working perfectly
> The printer software is also installed on my 98 PC
> When I try and install the printer again on the 98 I get ""The printer
> could not be installed.Try again. If the problem persists contact your
> system administrator"
> Is this a question of access authority?
> I should say that I was sharing the printer ok before I reinstalled
> Win 98 so some setting is preventing it form sharing now
> Blair

In other words, you have recently done a format/clean install of Windows
98 and cannot install the printer? Or you did a "dirty install" (over
top of itself) of Win98? If the latter, then uninstall/remove any
instance of the Epson from Win98. Make sure you have all Win98 updates
to the operating system. Then try reinstalling the Epson. Make sure you
have created a user account and password on the XP box that is
identical to the one on the Win98 box. Make sure you have set the Win98
box to log in with a user name and password and are using Client for
Windows Network and not Microsoft Family Logon.

Malke 

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