Got it. Thanks. Sorry for being thick.
I learned a long time ago never to go deleting things just because a
stranger tells you to on Usenet. So I tend to look for consensus or an
explanation or KB link before I go and do something.

"Mungo Bulge" <NO.SPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> No, you need a functional print driver/queue on the XP machine that is
> pointed at a shared printer on your Win98 machine.This you have in the
> "printer" that works. The other one is not functional because it does
> not have a driver, as XP thinks this one points to a print server,
> thereby expecting it to provide the driver. Win98 cannot provide this
> function thus you had to install the print service with a local print
> driver (the "printer" that works).
>
> "BP" <replytoall@only.net> wrote in message
> news:fdWdnSTLtrpuGCfeRVn-gw@conversent.net...
> |
> | "Mungo Bulge" <NO.SPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> | news:utTuEABEGHA.3064@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> | >
> | > <<<<SNIP>>>>
> | > |
> | > | "Mungo Bulge" <NO.SPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> | > | news:uu$7rP9DGHA.3904@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> | > | > Control Panel -> Printers and Faxes -> right click the printer
> you
> | > | > don't want and delete it.
> | > | >
> | > | Can I delete the printer from the list without deleting the
> driver?
> | > |
> | > Why? You are not deleting anything of use to the XP system. There
> | > isn't even an XP driver associated with that "Printer", it is just
> a
> | > print queue that isn't working. The only reason it is there at all
> is
> | > because it was installed by mistake. Just delete it.
> | >
> | I need the printer driver installed on the XP machine in order to
> use the
> | printer through the network, according to TFM. Not true?
> |
> |
>
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