It seems that vista has problems loading the print drivers correctly over a
network. What I've done that works is to connect the printer directly to the
Vista machine, install it as a printer, do a test page and make sure it's
printing. Then I reconnect the printer to the network and go thru "add a
printer" thru the network on the vista machine.
This has worked twice for me now and I can now print from my vista laptop to
either printer on my desktop. BTW, my XP Home desktop already had a shared
folder, so this wasn’t the problem for me.
Lori
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> I had a friend call for assistance in connecting their new Vista equipped
> laptop to their printer.
> I set up their network a couple years ago, and have added new machines and
> an XBox 360 to the wireless.
> The printer is attached to a desktop machine running XP Home and is
> shared/used by 3 other XP machines on the LAN (a mix of wired and wireless
> on a Linksys wireless router >Cable modem).
> All the XP machines print to it fine.
> The Vista machine finds the printer from the add printer wizard, but when
> I click it to select and click NEXT, I get 'could not connect, access
> denied'.
> I removed the factory installed Norton Security Suite from the new
> (Compaq) laptop (and installed AVG AV & Spybot search & destroy), made
> sure print sharing is allowed in Windows firewall on both systems, and
> rebooted both systems.
> The 'can not connect' error remained.
> I then created a shared folder on the XP machine.
> Viola, the printer now allows connection with Vista.
> I find it strange that the other XP machines will share the printer
> without having a folder shared, but Vista won't connect.
> Problem solved, but yet another GRRRRR at Vista.
>
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