Windows 98 network printer

Double-click the Network icon. Click the File and Print Sharing button. Select the I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer s check box and click OK. In the Network dialog box, click OK.

You return to the Control Panel. Double-click the Printers icon. If a dialog box requesting that you to restart your computer appears, do so. Then, open the Printers folder and continue from step 7. Materials Needed: - Computer connected to a network - Printer - Network Interface Card - CD or DVD drive - Printer driver Step 1 To install and setup a network printer using the Microsoft Windows 98 Operating System platform, the user must first make sure that he has the necessary rights and privileges assigned to him by the network administrator.

Step 2 Assuming that the proper rights have been acquired, click on the Start button select Settings and choose the Printers option. Step 3 This should bring up the Printers Control Panel window.

Select the Add Printer option on the screen. Step 4 The Add Printer Wizard should be displayed at this point. Click the Next button which will display a new window prompting the user whether the printer to be installed will be a Local or a Network Printer. Step 5 Select the Network Printer option. At this point make sure that the printer to be installed in connected and powered on, otherwise, it will not be detected by the setup wizard.

Click on the Next button to resume with the installation. Step 6 The user will now be asked to locate the printer to be installed from within the network environment.

Click the Browse button to allow the program to scan all available printers in the network. Step 7 All network printers available will be displayed to the user. Need more details Continuation from above Good luck It's a free download.

Your printer should have an IP address. Hook up the printer to it. Install JetAdmin to your NT server. Otherwise assign one. Exit JetAdmin. The following steps are not necessarily in the right order. I'm just following what's on top my head. But it's close enough to the real hierarchy of the procedure. From NT server, go to your Printer applet. We want to put printer on a network with 4 computers 2 with XP 1 with vista and 1 with Win On the printer it says the required operating system is windows or newer.

We want all the computers to be able to print to the Brother printer. I thought a long as the printer has an IP address the Win98 pc should see the printer or do I have to put the brother software on each PC? HoppyChris Limp Gawd. Joined Jan 23, Messages You'll have to have the brother software on each computer.

Just having an ip address isn't enough, the computer needs to know what to send to the printer at that ip address. It would be iffy, and might not work, but installing a rather generic printer driver or a driver for an older Brother printer , and having that print to the network address might work for you.

Joined Sep 11, Messages Just did this for a friend. Once it is connected to the network run the software off of the cd on each computer and it should find the printer just fine. Not sure about 98 though I would think it would work. Joined Jul 19, Messages 11, It should work if you can find drivers and print install utilities from Brother that still support Win9X.

So they needed that support to be installed with the printer software bundle. If you cannot find the full software bundle for Fake out the 98 machine by doing a local install of the printer, install it to LPT1.