What firewall software and antivirus software are you running... on both
PCs?
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Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows
"airbusguy" <> wrote in message
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> Hope someone can help.
>
> Here are the system details: Laptop- HP with Vista Home Premium x64
> printing to a HP desktop with XP x32 and a Lexmark 8350 all in one.
> Print share is enabled on both as well as bidirectional support.
>
> I've tried all remedies in the posts to get Vista x64 to print to xp
> desktop with printer. Here's what I have. When I print to the
> networked printer the print job window opens with the print job visible.
> After a time I get and "unable to communicate" message and the job wont
> complete. The local port path is correct. I have tried the manual
> addition of the port with the network path to the printer as well as
> downloading of the Vista x64 driver from Lexmark. The Lexmark driver
> install program does fine and can install the driver and locate the
> networked printer. It seems that something is blocking the
> communication between the two systems.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
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> airbusguy