Odd network problem

[arsenic]

I have two computers on a network. One is a w2k system (which is the server) the other is a win98. They are connected with a 10b t ethernet hub. I mostly just use the printer that is attached to the 98 machine from my w2k machine. The problem is that unless the win98 machine is logged onto the network I cant open Adobe Photoshop. The 98 machine is off and i open photoshop, it crashes and creates an error log, I turn on the 98 machine and photoshop runs fine. I know very little about networking, it was all i could do to get mine set up. What is going on here? The one thing I stumbled upon was that in Admin tools/ services/ there is no spooler listed, I was reading an unrelated tutorial and it sayed that there should be a spooler present. Could all of this be related to my problem?

[MishY]

You would need the Print Spooler service running on your Win2k box. You do not even have that listed in your services ? If you do set it to Automatic and start the service.

With PS did you install that over the network from the win98 machine ? Do you have your scratchdisks on the win98 box (scratchdisks are the HDD space PS uses as it's own type of swap file). If you didn't install via a network, and haven't changed those settings by default, and didn't install PS over the network, they should be on the Win2k C:\ and thus not cause you a problem.

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