Windows XP SP 2- now can't print to Win98 machine

ADT 3.3 as Acad 2002 on windows XP.
Hp Laserjet 1100 on Windows 98 printserver computer.
Installed XP SP2 .
Now when trying to print to the Laserjet from autocad, ACAD just crashes.
SBS 2000 domain network.

I can print to plotters shared from another XP computer.
I can Print a test page to the laserjet from the Printers Properties in
windows control panel.

Any recommendations? TIA

 

Are you using a .pc3 file?
If so, have you tried printing without one?
What about deleting the printer in AutoCAD's plotter manager and
reinstalling it?

- Jim

 

I was not using a .pc3 file for this printer.
The Plotter Manager in ACAD only lists .pc3 files, so I could not delete it
there.
I tried deleting the printer from the Windows Printers folder. Then
reinstalled it by dragging the icon back in from the printservers' shared
printers. This did not help.

Thanks for your reply

 

Yes, Windows 98 is the problem.
I had assumed only ACAD couldnt print to it because I was able to send a
test page from the printer properties.
But Word also crashes when I try to print from there.

I think I will just move the printer to an XP machine. And then Ill find out
if the few remaining 98 machines can print to that. If not, they will just
have to upgrade.

Thank you

 

So, are you saying that you could print to the Win98 machine BEFORE you
installed the SP2 on the XP machine?

Just curious because I have my home wireless networking set up so that my
wife's laptop running XP (also updated to SP2) can print to the HP1220c
inkjet printer hooked up to my Win98 machine. Of course, my computer has to
be on, and I'm not running SBS 2000 - just straight printer sharing. I can
also share drives if I wanted to.

But, I seem to remember having to add something into the XP machine to make
it work, yet I can't right now remember what that was. It may have been the
NetBIEU protocol that the XP setup no longer provides as an option, but I'm
not sure the Win98 machine is still set up with that now. That was almost
a year ago and, after a little initial fiddling, it's worked flawlessly ever
since - even after the SP2 update.

Joel

 

Yes it was working just fine before XP SP2.
We use TCP/IP here, no netbieu.

I may have added drivers for winXP to make it work. Not sure.
Generally I get confused with shared/networked printers and where the
drivers are, where the print spool is etc.

.....................................

Ok, I went to my printers folder (on Windows XP) , opened the printer
properties, (this took about 30 seconds to open)
I clicked change driver and selected the printer from the list (HP
Laserjet1100).

I can now print from Word and from Autocad!
However every step of the way is very slow and sluggish, as are other things
network related...

I guess I'm off to the MS forums.

Thanks

 

We have had the same experience.
We have peer-to-peer with a HP1700 hung off a W98 machine and it works well,
just sluggish, as you mentioned.

- Jim