Printer Access Denied

[BigK]

Is there any movement on this issue. I uninstalled and waited a few weeks
hoping that there'd be a solution to this issue.

I have a Vista RC2 Build 5744 on a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop.

I am trying to access my Samsung and Epson printers on my XP Home machine.
I've tried all the suggestions previously posted in here. But I was hoping
there was some new updated method. Has anyone gotten shared printers
installed on a Vista machine while the printers are shared on an XP Home
machine?

 

[Guest]

Hi,
I am sharing a printer that is on my XP machine with my VISTA machine.
All I did was enable sharing on the XP printer. Then Go to Printers on
VISTA, select add printer. Then Choose Network printer and VISTA displayed
the printer on the XP machine. I selected it and it was added. That was it.

 

[Rusty H]

Is your XP machine Home or Pro? I have had no luck sharing an XP Home
printer wih VISTA Ultimate.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rusty,
It's XP pro. I'm going to try it with my wife's XP home.

 

[Guest]

Is your XP machine Home or Pro? I have had no luck sharing an XP Home
printer wih VISTA Ultimate.

it is possible that the same print drivers are needed on both machines, i
also have vista on one machine and all others are XP and they share a Lexmark
810 series printer with no problems except the vista machine. this is because
the lexmark is not recognised by vista and will not allow. so it is possibly
the only solution is to have a printer that all operating systems work with

 

[BigK]

has this issue been fixed in the RTM release of Vista?

For a refresher ...

You have Vista on a computer and want to install a network printer that is
physically attached to an XP Home machine. When it tries to install it says
Printer Access Denied.

I hope someone will say this is fixed in the RTM release.

 

[Steve Urbach]

has this issue been fixed in the RTM release of Vista?

For a refresher ...

You have Vista on a computer and want to install a network printer that is
physically attached to an XP Home machine. When it tries to install it says
Printer Access Denied.

I hope someone will say this is fixed in the RTM release.

I think you are mixing terms and confusing people

A "Network" printer is a printer with a "Network Interface" and need
no host computer.

You seem to be describing a "Shared Printer" that belongs to a
specific machine (user) and is *allowed* to be used by others *IF* the
host machine is running.

I have 2 different network printers, A Brother with built in Ethernet
and a old HP Jet Direct EX3plus (3 port). The only problem (x86 5744)
seems to be "discovery". If you enter the IP address, you can
configure and USE these printers.

BTW I just tried setting up and using a "shared" HP LJ 4L on a XP pro
and successfully printed a test page from vista 5744.
Note: My workgroup names are all the same and they are NOT "workgroup"
(or MSHOME) <G>

 

[BigK]

I think you are mixing terms and confusing people

A "Network" printer is a printer with a "Network Interface" and need
no host computer.

You seem to be describing a "Shared Printer" that belongs to a
specific machine (user) and is *allowed* to be used by others *IF* the
host machine is running.

I have 2 different network printers, A Brother with built in Ethernet
and a old HP Jet Direct EX3plus (3 port). The only problem (x86 5744)
seems to be "discovery". If you enter the IP address, you can
configure and USE these printers.

BTW I just tried setting up and using a "shared" HP LJ 4L on a XP pro
and successfully printed a test page from vista 5744.
Note: My workgroup names are all the same and they are NOT "workgroup"
(or MSHOME) <G>

Thanks, but the key is XP HOME v. HP PRO. I have yet to hear that anyone
who is using XP Home to host the shared (not network, sorry) printers. I
still am unable to do this.


If this is not fixed, I will NEVER buy Vista, so I sure hope they find a
fix.