Problem sharing xp printer to Win9x

Hello,
I have a Brother laser printer (HL-1230) directly connected to an XP machine (parallel). The XP machine is on an NT4 network along with several Win9x machines and one Win2k machine. I have shared the printer and connected to it with one of the Win 98 PCs. The printer installs on the Win98 PC and prints the test page no problem. However, if I try to print a document that is longer than one page, the first page is printed and the printer basicly freezes. The Data light stays on solid and nothing more ever comes out. Tried hitting the fault reset button on the printer and then the printer just spews out a continous stream of blank sheets.

Now here is the kicker. If I print the same document from the Win2k machine to the same printer it comes out fine. Also, I have a spare XP PC that the user had been using but was having trouble with (software - unrelated) that is a Dell. Fired it up, logged in as the same user, hooke the printer up to it, changed the prot on the Win98 pc to print to the Dell (using the same printer driver) and the document printed fine.

Both XP machines have the LPT port configured as ECP, both have the Guest account enabled. I have tried downloading the latest XP drivers from Brother, uninstalled the printer and reinstalled it with the downloaded drivers. I have gone through the networking and printer settings on both XP machines and as far as I can tell they are identical. The only difference that I can see is that the XP PC that I am having trouble with is a 'white box' PC. It has an Intel D865GBF MB, P4 2.4 GHz, onboard video/NIC/sound. It has the Intel parallel prot hardware while the Dell has it's own generic parallel prot hardware. The Dell is a Celeron 1.8 GHz.

I am at my witts end. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

Try juggling the spool settings on the 98 box:

See if spool on/off makes a difference

Change job type to RAW

May even be a timeout setting in 98 but cant remember without digging an old PC out

 

Could just be a driver issue.

The NT systems (including 2K/XP) will use the drivers directly from the XP Pc that hosts the printer rather than loading any locally. So the 98 PC is the only one in your mix that has to load the printer drivers.

 

Sorry Newt,

I was inferring (though not very well) that it was local to the 98 as it would use its own driver

 

I found the answer. I went to download new drivers from the Brother website and finally stumbled across the support section of the site (there is no link to it from the front pages. You have to click through a couple of seemingly unrelated links to get there!). There is a patch for XP when sharing the printer P2P. Thanks for your help guys. Oh yeah, Andy O, your sig is great!