RE: No Printer Icons in Network Neighborhood

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From: Loyall (Loyall_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:11:01 -0800

Yipee hurray!! I solved the mystery. It appears that the share name of each
printer must meet certain parameters. I'm not sure exactly what they are, but
by removing spaces in the printer share names and making the names shorter,
my network printers miraculously appeared in Network Neighborhood.

"Loyall" wrote:

> I have a WinXP networked to a Win 98se on a simple home ethernet. Both
> computers are able to connect to the internet. I can share files between the
> two computers, but I cannot share the printers connected to theWinXP machine.
> I have enabled file and and printer sharing for microsoft networks in the
> Local Area Connection Properties on both machines, and I have also enabled
> sharing in the individual printers properties on the Win XP machine.
> But no printer icons appear along with the shared file icons in Network
> Neighborhood of the Win 98se machine. Consequently I have no way to add the
> networked computers to the Win98se

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