Access is Denied when setting up local printer port

Hi,

I have 2 vista laptops that are connected over the LAN. One of the
vista laptop (laptop A) is connected to a Epson LQ 300 dotmatrix
printer locally on the usb port. From the other vista laptop (laptop
B) I can browse and print to this network printer through printer
sharing. However I have a need to add a local port to laptop B to
access this printer as we need to configure the printer name locally,
when I tried this UNC path \\laptopA\sharedprinter, I will get this
access is denied message and I will see a print job named "Remote
Downlevel Doc" on the sharedprinter.

UAC and Firewall are all turned off to eliminate the cause of the
denial issue.

How can I successfully connected this sharedprinter as local port
printer? Any help is appreciated.



Regards
Zofia

enable UAC reboot, then add the port.

If you have Ultimate, launch printmanagement.msc and add the port from
there.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

<> wrote in message
news:4f3489dd-3509-4a1a-985f-...
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 vista laptops that are connected over the LAN. One of the
> vista laptop (laptop A) is connected to a Epson LQ 300 dotmatrix
> printer locally on the usb port. From the other vista laptop (laptop
> B) I can browse and print to this network printer through printer
> sharing. However I have a need to add a local port to laptop B to
> access this printer as we need to configure the printer name locally,
> when I tried this UNC path \\laptopA\sharedprinter, I will get this
> access is denied message and I will see a print job named "Remote
> Downlevel Doc" on the sharedprinter.
>
> UAC and Firewall are all turned off to eliminate the cause of the
> denial issue.
>
> How can I successfully connected this sharedprinter as local port
> printer? Any help is appreciated.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Zofia

Hi Alan,

Just tried, no luck. Any other options to go ?

Regards
Zofia


On Feb 11, 9:59*am, "Alan Morris [MSFT]" <ala...@online.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> enable UAC reboot, then add the port.
>
> If you have Ultimate, launch printmanagement.msc and add the port from
> there.
>
> --
> Alan Morris
> Windows Printing Team
> Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> <zofi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:4f3489dd-3509-4a1a-985f-...
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have 2 vista laptops that are connected over the LAN. One of the
> > vista laptop (laptop A) is connected to a Epson LQ 300 dotmatrix
> > printer locally on the usb port. From the other vista laptop (laptop
> > B) I can browse and print to this network printer through printer
> > sharing. However I have a need to add a local port to laptop B to
> > access this printer as we need to configure the printer name locally,
> > when I tried this UNC path \\laptopA\sharedprinter, I will get this
> > access is denied message and I will see a print job named "Remote
> > Downlevel Doc" on the sharedprinter.
>
> > UAC and Firewall are all turned off to eliminate the cause of the
> > denial issue.
>
> > How can I successfully connected this sharedprinter as local port
> > printer? Any help is appreciated.
>
> > Regards
> > Zofia- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Just an update, manage to resolve this issue by granting everyone
write access to the spooler printer directory in windows in laptopA.

On Feb 11, 10:20*am, zofi...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Just tried, no luck. Any other options to go ?
>
> Regards
> Zofia
>
> On Feb 11, 9:59*am, "Alan Morris [MSFT]" <ala...@online.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > enable UAC reboot, then add theport.
>
> > If you have Ultimate, launch printmanagement.msc and add theportfrom
> > there.
>
> > --
> > Alan Morris
> > Windows Printing Team
> > Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1
>
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> > <zofi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:4f3489dd-3509-4a1a-985f-....
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I have 2 vista laptops that are connected over the LAN. One of the
> > > vista laptop (laptop A) is connected to a Epson LQ 300 dotmatrix
> > >printerlocally on the usbport. From the other vista laptop (laptop
> > > B) I can browse and print to this networkprinterthroughprinter
> > > sharing. However I have a need to add alocalportto laptop B to
> > > access thisprinteras we need to configure theprintername locally,
> > > when I tried this UNC path \\laptopA\sharedprinter, I will get this
> > > access is denied message and I will see a print job named "Remote
> > > Downlevel Doc" on the sharedprinter.
>
> > > UAC and Firewall are all turned off to eliminate the cause of the
> > > denial issue.
>
> > > How can I successfully connected this sharedprinter aslocalport
> > >printer? Any help is appreciated.
>
> > > Regards
> > > Zofia- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -