Create the local printer
- Open Windows Printers and Faxes on the Windows XP machine
- Click Add Printer
- Select Local printer attached to this computer, unselect Automatically… Plug and Play printer
- Select Use the following port: LPT1
- Select the pre-installed driver or click Have Disk and browse to the appropriate downloaded driver. Click Next.
- Name the printer as if it was a shared network printer
- Continue through the prompts, using the defaults. Click Finish.
- Right click on the newly created printer and select Properties.
- On the screen that pops up, select the Ports tab. Within that tab, select Add Port.
- Select Local Port, then click the New Port button.
- At this screen, type in the share of the printer.
- This can be figured out by browsing to the computer that is hosting the printer share
i. Start à Run, type in \\workstationname, hit Enter.
ii. Look at the Printer Share
- Click OK, until you are back at the Ports tab. The new port should have a check in the check box next to it, if not, put it there.
- Click Apply and then Close.