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I was trying to allow additional clients to print to a plotbase server via Win-Print. I first tried to install the printer over the network and received an error saying the correct driver was not installed on the server and allowed to browse for the correct file that should have been an auto.inf file that I could not locate on the driver cd or elsewhere.

I then installed SNMP on the client machines and tried to install the Win-Print driver. I was given an error stating that the computer needed to have a d2 board and d2 drivers. I have no idea what/where this is.

Can anyone help?
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On the server you need to install the inf file for other operating systems. The D2 board is the interface PCI on the server that the Ricoh connects to.

From the workstation browse for the “tools” folder on the server and you should see the winprint driver. SNMP only needs to be turned on at the server.
Just to be clear, as v-tec said, you have to load all the drivers at the server, and simply browse across the network to the shared printer.

If you were trying to run the setup program that installs "win-print", that program is ONLY for use on the server, it will not allow you to run it on a machine that doesn't have the proprietory PCI card installed.

I would guess that you are trying to install a win98 client. In this case you will need to load the win98 print driver on the server (you can run the win-print setup program to add the driver) you will need a win98 CD in order to do this.
Ok. well, you can't do that =)

You cannot run the setup program on the client PC, you have to browse to the printer and connect to it, allowing it to download the driver automatically. You can ONLY run the setup program on PCs that have a Ratio PCI card installed (i.e., directly connected to the plotter)

If at this point you are getting the "no valid driver" error, then I suspect you have a network difficulty.

You can try disabling the firewall on the Plotbase PC, and setting up a local user (that is the same as the client PC's user) with rights to the printer.
Just FYI, without SNMP, you can still install the driver, it will just give you annoying error messages saying it can't detect the printer state (because it uses SNMP to communicate that info).

FTP won't affect this part of the install.

Domain and workgroup might affect it. The way I usually test my user rights is to open the spool folder on the server from a client and make a new folder. If I can do that across the network, I should have all the rights I'll need to accomplish anything.

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