Can't pring from XP machine connected printer

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David Sherman - 10 Jan 2006 20:41 GMT

I have a new customer who is an a SBS 2003 small business server.

A user is trying to print from a XP Home to a Windows ME machine.
Printer is HP 970. User gets no error machine. They can't print a test
page on the XP machine. Network shares to this machine do work.

Any suggstions to get this fixed would be appreciated.

thanks

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Cari (MS-MVP) - 11 Jan 2006 04:27 GMT

SBS works in a domain environment. Windows XP Home cannot join a domain.

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>I have a new customer who is an a SBS 2003 small business server.
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David Sherman - 11 Jan 2006 14:27 GMT

I realize that XP Home won't connect to a domain controller but how
does that effect a direct \\ipaddress of the printer connection?

thansks

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Cari (MS-MVP) - 11 Jan 2006 18:37 GMT

Can other PCs print to the same printer?

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>I realize that XP Home won't connect to a domain controller but how
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David Sherman - 12 Jan 2006 17:29 GMT

Yes

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:37:23 -0800, "Cari \(MS-MVP\)"
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>Can other PCs print to the same printer?
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David Sherman - 15 Jan 2006 15:03 GMT

The solution was very simple.

Once the machines had a same workgroup, I was abale to get the machine
to print properly.

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Noel Paton - 15 Jan 2006 15:16 GMT

You said you were in a Domain!!

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