Trying to add printer on another networked system. Things seem to go ok
until 'Connect to Printer: You are about to ..... viruses or scripts.....'

Enter "Yes" and "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The driver that
you are trying to install is not compatible with Windows XP."

What the heck does this mean? Any printer used with XP must be on
another XP machine? Any help?

Other computer: WinNT workstation with HP DeskJet710C

If the shared printer was attached to another XP workstation yours would be
able to copy the driver to itself. Since it is attached to an NT computer,
an XP driver cannot be provided this way. (Why would you assume an NT host
has an XP driver available?) You need to download an XP driver. Then when
you install the shared printer and are asked for the driver, navigate to the
directory where you placed the downloaded one. (Some printers,
particularly, some ink jets may require running an executable to install and
require a different process than noted above. If that's the case post again
for further info.)
--

"stevek" <someone@somewhere.org> wrote in message
news:5Hnsf.198644$qk4.166209@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Trying to add printer on another networked system. Things seem to go ok
> until 'Connect to Printer: You are about to ..... viruses or scripts.....'
>
> Enter "Yes" and "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The driver that
> you are trying to install is not compatible with Windows XP."
>
> What the heck does this mean? Any printer used with XP must be on another
> XP machine? Any help?
>
> Other computer: WinNT workstation with HP DeskJet710C

the NT4 710C driver from HP will cause the XP client to bugcheck, therefore
the driver is blocked from installing on XP.

; Mapping of Broken OEM printer driver model names to in-box model names
;
;
; This section gives the model name mapping.
;
; 1) The syntax is
;
; "<Broken OEM model name>" = "<In-box model name>", WksLevel, SrvLevel,
"mm/dd/yyyy", Unidrv5.4
;
; WksLevel is the warning level on a workstation: 2 = warn, 1=block
; SrvLevel is the warning level on a server: 2 = warn, 1=block
; If the date field is used, only drivers with core driver DLLs older
than this date will be deleted.
; Make sure year is given in a 4 digit format (i.e. not 98 but 1998)
; Make sure date field is separated with a comma.
; If there are multiple entries for one single driver to indicate that an
older version
; is blocked and a newer only warned, make sure these entries are sorted
by ascending date
; Unidrv5.4 indicates whether there exists a Unidrv 5.4 driver for a
warned or blocked driver.
; If the Unidrv 5.4 field exists, a value of 1 indicates that a Unidrv
5.4 does exist
;
; 2) In case there is no In-box support for the broken OEM Printer, the
; printer driver will be deleted. The syntax is
;
; "<Broken OEM model name>" = "", WksLevel, SrvLevel
;
; 3) If the driver has to be deleted but only on the basis of the date
; (as explained above) the syntax is
;
; "<Broken OEM model name>" = "", WksLevel, SrvLevel, "mm/dd/yyyy"
;


"HP DeskJet 710C Series" = "HP DeskJet 710C", 1, 1

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"GTS" <x> wrote in message news:%23dPaLc%23CGHA.3784@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> If the shared printer was attached to another XP workstation yours would
> be able to copy the driver to itself. Since it is attached to an NT
> computer, an XP driver cannot be provided this way. (Why would you assume
> an NT host has an XP driver available?) You need to download an XP
> driver. Then when you install the shared printer and are asked for the
> driver, navigate to the directory where you placed the downloaded one.
> (Some printers, particularly, some ink jets may require running an
> executable to install and require a different process than noted above.
> If that's the case post again for further info.)
> --
>
> "stevek" <someone@somewhere.org> wrote in message
> news:5Hnsf.198644$qk4.166209@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> Trying to add printer on another networked system. Things seem to go ok
>> until 'Connect to Printer: You are about to ..... viruses or
>> scripts.....'
>>
>> Enter "Yes" and "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The driver that
>> you are trying to install is not compatible with Windows XP."
>>
>> What the heck does this mean? Any printer used with XP must be on another
>> XP machine? Any help?
>>
>> Other computer: WinNT workstation with HP DeskJet710C
>
>