text: i'm trying to share a printer on a windows xp machine but we are on an novell network? i don't wish to use the ip printers on the novell network so i wish to share a local printer for others' to print to. i've tried everything i can think of and can't make it work. i'm not an administrator of the network, so i will have to make it work on the end user side. if anybody has an easy approach to this...let me know...step by step possibly...thanks! you will need to do as the above poster indicates, and share your printer.  the share name should not be more than 8 characters.  also everyone who needs it, will need to create a user account on your machine....if that is alot of people, then you may consider activating the 'guest' account, though it is a security risk to do so.  they will also all need the printer drivers installed, once they can detect it.  if *you* do not have problems accessing any other resources on the network, then your trasport protocol is ok. if you can't access other network resources, then you need to make sure you have the 'client service for netware' installed start--control panel--network connections--right-click on the 'local area connection' and choose properties, look in the box for the netware protocols ipx/spx, and make sure they are checked....if not there, click the 'install' button and then click the 'add' button ('client' is the default so you don't have to select it,) choose the netware service client, and ok. choose 'ok' for all but the properties window, (it changes the 'ok' button to 'close',) press 'close' there.  you should re-boot at this point....twice.   if you have the windows firewall on, you need to open the control in the control panel, and click the 'exceptions' tab, and ensure that the 'file and printer sharing' box is checked.  hope this helps !