Solutions for WinXP systems that cannot share printers

Solutions for WinXP systems that cannot share printers

Phenomenon One: Network Neighborhood cannot browse normally

To share a printer in Windows XP, the first thing to do is not to install the network printer directly on the workstation, but to first look at the View workgroup computer item in My Network Places to see if the computer that has the printer installed (the print server) is available. If you can find a print server, the basic conditions for sharing a printer are available, and if an error occurs, you should resolve the problem first.

Solution:

To confirm that the LAN workgroup name is consistent, go to the Local Area Connection Properties window and click the "Install" button to add the "NWLink Ipx/spx/netbios Compatible Transport PRotocol" protocol, You can resolve this problem without restarting the workgroup computer or by clicking the "View workgroup Computer" Item, "There is no permission to browse So-and-so workgroup ...".

Phenomenon Two: Unable to browse print server

When you are able to browse your network Places correctly, first double-click the print server icon to see if the shared printer exists, if it exists, it means that the current workstation has permission to install, print, and so on, if the shared printer is not visible or the print server cannot be browsed, the current workstation does not have sufficient permissions.

Solution:

This problem should be resolved from two aspects, one is to open the Guest account in the print server, and in the Group Policy in turn into "Computer Configuration →windows settings → security settings → local policy → user Rights Assignment", delete the "Deny access to this computer from the network" item in the Guest account can; The second is to ensure that the "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft network" item is selected in the local Area Connection attribute of the print server.

Phenomenon Three: The workstation does not search for a shared printer

This is the most common problem for most local area network users when they install shared printers on a Windows XP workstation, typically by showing only "Microsoft Windows network" Information in the list of shared printers, while shared printers are not searched.

Solution:

There are three ways to solve this problem. The first is that after the "NWLink Ipx/spx/netbios Compatible Transport Protocol" protocol is installed for "Local Area Connection", it is usually possible to search for a shared printer, and the second is to directly double-click the Network Places to enter the print server, Right-click on the Shared printer icon, select "Connect" in the pop-up shortcut menu, click "Yes" in the pop-up box to quickly install the shared printer; third, check that the print server's local connection has the Internet Connection Firewall feature enabled, and if it does, cancel the feature, If you want to use the Internet Connection Firewall feature and you want to share files and printers, install the NetBEUI protocol (non-routing protocol).

Symptom Four: Install printer without driver for workstation

Typically, the network administrator needs to transfer the driver files for the shared printer to the workstation to install the shared printer driver on the workstation. But if there are dozens of workstations to do this, it will make network managers feel headache.

Solution:

There are two ways for you to choose. The first is to use Windows XP to install the "other drivers" method to resolve. For example, to install the Lenovo 6110 printer, assuming that there are 20 Windows 98 workstations, first install the 6110 for 98 drive on any workstation, and then copy the Lgbcpr.inf file from the workstation "Cwindowsinf" directory to the print server. Next, go to the print server's Shared printer Properties window, click the "Other Drivers" button in the "Sharing" tab Setup interface, check the "Intel Windows 95, 98, and Me" entry in the pop-up dialog box, and then specify the location of the "Lgbcpr.inf" file. When prompted to specify the "Lexgo.exe" file, specify the "driverswin_9xlexgo.ex_" file in the drive disk, and the system will automatically replicate the required driver files (see figure). Once replicated, user-supplied drivers are no longer required to install shared printers on other workstations. However, this approach is cumbersome, and it is difficult for beginners to determine what files are required in the process.