Printer sharing on home LAN

Okay, I've got a home LAN (behind a D-Link DI-704 broadband gateway - aka: router & firewall). I've got a W2KPro workstation as my main system and two laptops - one W98 and one WNT4. I've got file sharing working among them just fine.

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Okay, I've got a home LAN (behind a D-Link DI-704 broadband gateway - aka: router & firewall). I've got a W2KPro workstation as my main system and two laptops - one W98 and one WNT4. I've got file sharing working among them just fine. However, I've got two printers hanging off the W2K box that I can't seem to access from the other systems. Problem seems to be that "The Server doesn't have the appropriate drivers availalble". Okay, so I do some more digging and finally found where I could configure the shared printers to support both WNT4 and W98 ... unfortunately my system then requested the "Windows 2000 Server CD" be installed!!! Argh!!
 
Is there any way for a W2k workstation to share a printer with a non-W2K workstation without having the W2K Server CD???
 
Thanks,
 
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psklenar can u please contact me regarding how you got file sharing to work between win98 and win2k, thanks
 
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Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by clutch:
I had the same problem. I think this will help. ...</font>

Thanks Clutch! That looks like it should handle it. I'll try it out tomorrow night (too tired now ).

G'night,



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