Re: Sharing printer over NETBEUI

Hi
NetBEUI can be used an exist on the Network even if Vista is there too, but
it work only with the XP computers.
As for Vista, Sorry but that is real life, and outcome of progress. I like
NetBEUI, simple and low on taking resources, but its time had come.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).

"Ian" <> wrote in message
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>I have a printer locally connected to a machine running Vista Home Basic,
>and want to share the printer across the LAN via NETBEUI to a number of
>machines running XP.
>
> NETBEUI setup appeared straightforward -- I used the .inf and .sys files
> that came with one of the XP systems, and configuring it was essentially
> the same as in XP. I made sure the Vista Netgroup was the same as the XP
> Netgroup.
>
> On the Vista machine, I set the printer to be shared, then in "Network and
> Sharing Center" I set up the sharing as follows:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Filesharing: On
> Public Folder Sharing: On
> Printer Sharing: On
> Password Protected Sharing: Off
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> When I click on "Show me all the shared network folders on this computer"
> I can see the shared printer.
>
> But when I click on "Show me all the files and folders I am sharing" there
> are No Items displayed.
>
> The net result is that none of the XP machines can see the share.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> --
> Ian