Windows 95

One of my correspondents told me how he set up Windows 95 to access an OS/2 printer. Here's the relevant part of the conversation

This advice is in response to problems Scott was having.

John

James
Have you been able to share a printer? If so, can you tell Scott & me (in some detail) what has to be done?

James

Yes, I have an HP DeskJet 660C connected to LPT1 on the Warp Connect machine. I went to my printer object on the desktop, hit the right mouse button, and clicked on SHARE, and then START SHARING. Then I gave it unlimited access and clicked on GRANT ACCESS. You have to toggle something on this page in order to enable the SAVE button. I just click on AUDIT twice. Also, under OS/2 Peer, I clicked the SHARING AND CONNECTING object, and then on the SHARES tab. Then click on SHARE...CREATE, and click PRINTER. Now from the 486 Win95 machine, I think I chose Add new hardware, and chose either LPT port or printer. There was a button called "Capture printer port", and I picked LPT2 which prints to //HOME/OMNIHPDE, where HOME is my Warp Connect Pentium, and OMNIHPDE is the OMNI printer driver for the HP printer. This worked great, as it had an option to print a test page, which looked perfect. I have not yet found out how to print from the Pentium to the Epson dot matrix printer on the Win95 machine. Not that I need to, but it would be a good learning experience.

Scott

Now, I have the Win95 client showing in the network folder, but I can't seem to get at it. I get the logon box(ex) asking for user ID and password. When I set it up, I used the exact same name and password for both machines, and even wrote them down. I get the `unable to log on' message every time. What gives?

James

I had this problem at first. Here's something weird, I go to "Lan Server and OS/2 Peer Resources", click on the Win95 machine, and there is the hard drive and CD-ROM. Click on either one, and I get "SYS0065: Network access is denied." Now, if I right-click on this object, and choose FIND, and then click on the Find button, I get a list of all files and directories in the root. If I then click on an object in the found list, it works fine. I can run programs, edit files and so forth. The way I got access to the Win95 drives was to go to the "Sharing and Connecting" object and then under the Connections tab, I chose "Create" and mapped the C: drive on the Win95 machine to G: on my Warp machine, and the D: cd-rom to H:. I can now access these drives from any app on the Warp machine, I can even back up the Win95 hard drive to my tape drive with Dualstor.

Hope this helps, John. If you need more details, just let me know. Thanks again.