In Windows XP, often for various reasons can not share the printer, this time you are helpless? Solving the problem requires the right medicine, let us understand the problems and solutions that are most likely to occur when sharing printers in Windows XP. Phenomenon, a network neighbor can't browse properly. Share the printer in Windows XP. The first thing to do is not to install the network printer directly on the workstation. Instead, you should first check if the "View Workgroup Computer" item in "My Network Places" is normal. Browse and see if a computer with a printer installed (hereinafter referred to as a print server) appears. If the print server can be found, the basic conditions for the shared printer are already available. If an error occurs, the problem should be resolved first. Solution: Under the premise that the name of the LAN working group is the same, enter the "Local Area Connection" property window, click the "Install" button to add the "NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBiOS Compatible Transport Protocol" protocol, and now you can solve the problem without viewing the restart. A group computer or a question such as "No permission to browse a certain workgroup..." that appears after clicking the "View Workgroup Computer" item. Phenomenon 2 can't browse the print server. After browsing “My Network Places”, first double-click the print server icon to enter whether the shared printer exists. If it exists, the current workstation has permission to install and print the printer. Operation, if you do not see the shared printer or can not browse the print server, it means that the current workstation has insufficient permissions. Solution: This problem should be solved in two aspects. First, open the Guest account in the print server, and then go to "Computer Configuration → Windows Settings → Security Settings → Local Policies → User Rights Assignment" in the group policy, delete "Reject" The Guest account in the "Access this computer from the network" item can be used; the second is to ensure that the "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Network" item is checked in the "Local Area Connection" property of the print server. Phenomenon 3 Workstations Cannot Search for Shared Printers This is the most common problem for most LAN users when installing a shared printer on a Windows XP workstation. The usual form of presentation is that only the "Microsoft Windows Network" message appears in the list of shared printers. Shared printers are not searchable. Solution: There are three solutions to this problem. First, after installing the "NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBiOS Compatible Transport Protocol" protocol for "local connection", you can usually search for shared printers. Second, double-click "My Network Places" to enter the print server, right click on the share. Printer icon, select "Connect" in the pop-up shortcut menu, click the "Yes" button in the pop-up prompt box to quickly install the shared printer; third, check whether the "local connection" of the print server is enabled "Internet connection firewall" "Function, if it is enabled, please cancel this function. If you want to use the "Internet Connection Firewall" function and want to share files and printers, you need to install the NetBEUI protocol (non-routing protocol). Symptom 4 Let the workstation drive the printer without a driver Normally, the network administrator needs to transfer the driver file of the shared printer to the workstation to install the shared printer driver on the workstation. But if there are dozens of workstations to do this, it will make the network administrators feel a headache. Solution: There are two ways for you to choose. One is to use Windows XP to install the "other drivers" method to solve. Take the Lenovo 6110 printer as an example. Suppose there are now 20 Windows 98 workstations. First install the 6110 for 98 driver on any workstation, and then put "lgbcpr.inf" in the workstation "c:\\Windows\\inf\\" directory. The file is copied to the print server. Then enter the shared printer properties window of the print server, click the "Other Drivers" button in the "Share" tab settings interface, check the "Intel Windows 95, 98 and ME" item in the pop-up dialog box, and then specify "lgbcpr" The location of the .inf" file. When prompted to specify the "lexgo.exe" file, specify the "Drivers\\Win_9X\\lexgo.ex_" file on the drive disk, and the system will automatically copy the required driver files (see figure). After the copy is complete, the user-provided driver is no longer needed when installing the shared printer on other workstations. However, this method is cumbersome, and it is difficult for beginners to determine which files are needed in the process. The more recommended method is the second one, the "map network drive" method. This method is simple and works for all printer sharing. For example, to install the Epson LQ-1600KIII printer, first share the printer driver file in the print server. Then enter the print server in the "My Network Places" of the workstation, find and select the shared printer driver file, click the "Map Network Drive" menu item, select a drive in the drive list, and click the "OK" button. Then, when installing the shared printer and providing the driver file, manually specify the mapped drive and follow the prompts to quickly complete the driver installation.