OfficeJet 4315 on 2000 Server

I just got myself a USB 2.0 card to give my old Compaq AP400 server some necessary speed and ports of the USB pursuasion. Part of my reason for doing this is that I have an OfficeJet 4315 All-in-One printer that I use mainly for faxes. I'd also like to use it as a scanner and networked printer.

To start, I put in the CD that came with it and it came up with an error. The product didn't match the mojo or there was insufficient bling in the system. It doesn't want to install on Windows 2000 Server. I guess it's got something to do with HP and Microsoft's licensing with one another and what's a consumer-level all-in-one doing connecting to a "corporate" server anyway. In any case, I wanted to get this thing going and I thought there's gotta be a way.

I went to the HP website and typed in 4315 in their Drivers and Downloads search tool. After picking Windows 2000, one of the options was HP Print and Scan Drivers: USB Support which looked like the best one. When I downloaded that and ran it, I got the same error.

So I decided to look around to see if the drivers had been unpacked somewhere. I found them in c:\documents and settings\adminstrator\local settings\temp\hpwebrelease. After I pointed a manual hardware installation to look there for the drivers, it worked. I was able to print from the server!

My next task was to share it and see if I could print and scan over the network - a long shot. Didn't get it to scan but I think that's just the way it goes with this printer. If I want to use it to scan, I'll just have to setup an XP or 2000 Professional "server". For now, I can print to it which took a bit of doing and I'll have to leave it at that. Unless... there's something under Linux that'll work...