XP Home Printer Sharing

[hamish]

Hey

I have a a desktop server running in my office on XP home. It has two printers attached to it, A and B. These are both shared with other people in my office.

Always when I reboot, one, or both, of the printers seem to have stopped working. Although the icon is there, when I print a test page locally I'm told that the driver is not installed. When I print from one of the clients, the page just doesn't print.

Although the icon is always there for theprinter on the server, XP home seems to uninstall the driver. Occasionally, I can reinstall the driver and then it will work until I next reboot.

Is this a know problem? I talked to a guy who shares one printer on a network using XP home, and he mentioned a similar problem.

WHat is the fix?

Hamish

[Aegis]

The printer may have been moved. Delete the printer from both computers and reinstall it.

[hamish]

in what sense "moved"? It is always plugged into the same server.

I wondered if one unsahred the printer before shutting down the server. That might help. Simply because it is a simpler situation.

hamish