At 06:26 PM 11/8/01 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: >Win98SE home network (3 machines), file & printer sharing, internet >connection sharing -- everything works fine (more or less!). Printer is >hooked up to the main machine and prints fine from all machines on network. > >Now I am trying to install an additional LOCAL printer, not on the main >machine, but on one of the others. Windows insists on giving it the same >port as the network printer (i.e. LPT1 \\virginia\hpdeskjet) and there seems >no way of assigning it to another port. The only other possibilities listed >by Windows are the two comm ports. Windows "Help" doesn't seem to help at >all! I've tried everything, but the new printer is always given LPT1 the >same as the network printer, which causes a dreadful conflict. > >There must be some way of assigning a different port address to a local >printer, surely?? I want to use the new printer locally, as well as the >current network printer. New Printer is HP Deskjet 610C, and I have the >latest drivers d/l from HP.
Strange indeed. I have a LAN with two different printers defined. Pacer1 (Main PC has an HPLJ 6P hooked to LPT1) and shows up on PC2 and PC3 under MyComputer -->Printers as Properties --> Details tab Print to the following Port: \\Pacer1\hplj6p The 2nd printer (Epson On Pacer2) is defined to LPT1 on that machine and doesn't conflict with the shared printer on LPT1 on Pacer1. Both are listed under Printers for PC2 (but one is shared and shows the little blue hand) while the other one doesn't. I have the HPLJ (Pacer1, shared, set as the default) but that doesn't prevent me from printing color to the Epson on PC2 LPT1 port. Have you tried the Details tab --> Add Port button? You may have to delete (unselect the Network) port and click on Other and add Local Port to get the LPT1 on PC2 to be distinct from LPT1 on PC1. I think this is what I had to do. -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
