Prints test page okay BUT.......

Yes, "Print to the following PORT" is what I meant. For method 1, you'd
click the "Capture Printer Port" button, put "USB002" in the lower "Path"
window and set your choice of LPT ports in the "Device" window. If that's
what you tried and it didn't work, sadly, I'm not surprised; Win98 just
doesn't do USB very well.

In order for "Sharing" to appear on the right click menu, you first have to
turn on Printer Sharing. Right click Network Neighborhood, select
"Properties", click the "File and Printer Sharing" button, and add a
checkmark to "I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer(s)".
With this done, right click the printer, click Sharing, click the "Shared
as" radio button, and give it a Share Name. The "Computername" of your PC is
available from Network Neighborhood properties on the "Identification" tab.
At this point, you will hopefully be able to plug "\\computername\sharename"
into the Path window. I don't know if this will work either, but it won't
hurt to try.

Hal
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<billurie DeleteThis @nospam.org> wrote in message
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> Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I] wrote:
> > I'm not exactly sure how to do this, however, it should be one of two
ways.
> > In both cases, you'll use the "Capture Printer Port" button. The first
> > thing to try is to use the path listed in the "Print to the following
path"
> > window of the "Details" tab. In the Capture box, use the LPT port of
your
> > choice in the "Device" window and the path shown on the Details tab as
the
> > path. If this doesn't work, the next thing to try would be the Windows
XP
> > method. Here, you would share the printer (right click the printer,
click
> > "Sharing", give it a name, click OK) and then use the share path (which
> > would be \\computername\sharename) in the path window in the capture
dialog
> > box.
> >
> > I'm not sure either method will work. Windows 98 doesn't have much USB
> > support, so I don't know if either "Path" is useable.
> >
> > Hal
> Hal, I want to emphasize that I am very grateful for your help.
> But as seems to happen to me all too often, the detailed help
> furnished doesn't fit what I see when I go there, or the advice
> given uses terms that leave me still in the dark.
>
> In the case we have here, I tried Method 1 first. My window doesn't
> show "Print to the following path", it says "Print to the following
> port". So I used that. It gave me four choices: USB002, COM1, LPT1, and
> FILE. Nothing I put there led to a successful choice at the "Capture"
> step, any choice of LPT1 thru LPT9 led to an error window with a
> big red 'X', saying "Network not supporting function" I would have loved
> to Capture LPT1 to USB002 (or vice versa) but I couldn't make it happen
>
> So I tried your "Windows XP method". I right clicked the printer, but
> of the choices that opened up, "Sharing" was not one of them, so I
> was blocked there. If you can get me past that hurdle, you might tell me
> where to find my 'computername'.....I tried opening up everything in
> "My Computer" but don't recall seeing a name. Sharename is easy, since
> you said "Give it a name".
>
> So I'm at a standstill in both methods, and I hate to keep bothering
> you. Is it possible that my 98, which is real original, right from
> its installation CD with no improvements, needs some updates
> or service packs? I could download these and save them in my XP OS,
> because in 98 I do not go on line.
>
> Incidentally, I'd be happy to work with you off this group if you feel
> it is not of widespread enough interest for the newsgroup. In a way
> that's more efficient.
>
> Bill L.

Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I] wrote:
> Yes, "Print to the following PORT" is what I meant. For method 1, you'd
> click the "Capture Printer Port" button, put "USB002" in the lower "Path"
> window and set your choice of LPT ports in the "Device" window. If that's
> what you tried and it didn't work, sadly, I'm not surprised; Win98 just
> doesn't do USB very well.
>
> In order for "Sharing" to appear on the right click menu, you first have to
> turn on Printer Sharing. Right click Network Neighborhood, select
> "Properties", click the "File and Printer Sharing" button, and add a
> checkmark to "I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer(s)".
> With this done, right click the printer, click Sharing, click the "Shared
> as" radio button, and give it a Share Name. The "Computername" of your PC is
> available from Network Neighborhood properties on the "Identification" tab.
> At this point, you will hopefully be able to plug "\\computername\sharename"
> into the Path window. I don't know if this will work either, but it won't
> hurt to try.
>
> Hal
Hal, as happens so often, it is one step forward, two steps back.
I tried the steps you listed, and as an aside I found my computer
name...one *I* certainly didn't give it (D8B7K9).I Right Clicked
Neighborhood, got to File & Printer Sharing button, checked "allow
others to print etcetera". Closed or OK, whatever, and now it hit
the fan. Window opened, "Copying files.....Insert 98 CDROM". Did
that, waited, pressed OK, and now I got "Can't find Secur32.dll".
Below that, "Copy from C:\Windows\options\CABS", tried a few times,
had to abort the whole procedure and come back to say "*HELP*".
In the process of leading me past the above hurdles, you might
consider this: I have a CD which is to Upgrade 98 to 98ME. Do
you feel that ME is more modern and maybe more complete?

Incidentally I went to Microsoft download site looking for
SPs for 98, and found nothing applicable other than an IE upgrade. I
already have IE 6, good enough.

Over to you...and thanks. I hope you have as much patience as I do.

Bill L.