Network Printer Problem NEW THREAD

[Joe Bissett]

Hi Craig,

First, thanks for taking the time to respond.

On 10/22/2011 2:14 PM, Craig White wrote:
> First... you are missing the standard courtesy of starting your own
> thread rather than choosing the reply to another thread and changing the
> subject. Many of us actually use threading and this pollutes the
> original thread and generally confuses things.

With all due respect, I have been on line since 300 baud, and I always 
make every effort to not screw things up.  I have no clue why my NEW 
message became a part of another thread.  Once again I have copied only 
the address message and pasted it into a new "write" message using 
Thunderbird, latest version.  Please advise if there is a better way to 
start a new thread, as it certainly escapes me.
> Second... on your Windows 98 machine, you have to 'share' the printer.

The printer is shared.  As I said, I can print from both of the other 
two machines on the network.
> Make the name reasonably simple and it should be reasonably simple to
> find it and print to it.

The W98 machine is "joe" and the printer is "brother".  I try hard to 
keep things simple. :-) :-)
> With Windows, the naming is \\COMPUTER\SHARE
> and Linux will use //COMPUTER/SHARE so if the Windows 98 computer is
> called win98 and the shared printer is called HL1440, you should be able
> to use //win98/hl1440 on your Linux box

I removed the network name mshome, and entered only joe/brother as you 
suggest,  The result is the same.  It finds the computer (joe) but the 
"OK" button remains greyed out.  Authentication is set to "Prompt user 
if authentication is required".  No prompts are received.

> and not even have to bother
> browsing (though browsing the network should work - there may be other
> things that interfere with network browsing).

Trying the "Find Network Printer" option, the entry slot will not accept 
a virgule (/) so I can not enter //joe/brother.  I tried just "brother", 
but no luck.

Your instructions certainly seem simple enough to me, but I still have 
had no luck. :'(

Thanks for trying, anyway.

Joe