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Vince
Hello:
I may end up having to post this in a Vista group but thought I would start
here first.
Ok I had a network with 4 XP machines. Printer sharing went just fine. I am
aware of how to share the printers I also work othere places with more
systems.
Now for the issue. My printer shares were working just fine but then I lost
an XP Machine to lightning. I replaced it with a Vista machine. Of course I
had to download and install Vista drivers in the computer.
Once I did that the shared printers worked just fine as expected.
Well Vista turned out to be a mess on my network and I could not use the
software that I must use. So I decided to build a new XP Machine. Everything
works well including all file sharing, however now I can no longer access
the printer that is on the new machine from the others. Details of issue
below.
On new machine I installed the printer that we always use at that location.
I can print to that printer from the machine it is actually connected to. I
shared the printer and then choose to uninstall from the other machines.
Then I went to printers and added it back in from accross the network from
the machine it is now installed on.
Well it installed just fine which again tells me the network is working or I
could not have gotten to this printer. However when I try to print to it I
get document failed to print. This happens from every machine except the one
the printer is actually connected to.
This leads me to believe that somehow there are updated Vista drivers left
over in the machines that once used this printer when connected to a Vista
machine.
I am looking for a way to somehow to force XP into replacing the drivers on
those machines with teh proper drivers or maybe manually removing the
drivers and reinstalling them. I just can not seem to figure out where those
are located on the client machines.
If I can not figure this out I will be forced to get a new printer because
in the long run it would be cheaper than the time involved in rebuilding the
other machines.
Anyone help with this would be great.
Thanks
I may end up having to post this in a Vista group but thought I would start
here first.
Ok I had a network with 4 XP machines. Printer sharing went just fine. I am
aware of how to share the printers I also work othere places with more
systems.
Now for the issue. My printer shares were working just fine but then I lost
an XP Machine to lightning. I replaced it with a Vista machine. Of course I
had to download and install Vista drivers in the computer.
Once I did that the shared printers worked just fine as expected.
Well Vista turned out to be a mess on my network and I could not use the
software that I must use. So I decided to build a new XP Machine. Everything
works well including all file sharing, however now I can no longer access
the printer that is on the new machine from the others. Details of issue
below.
On new machine I installed the printer that we always use at that location.
I can print to that printer from the machine it is actually connected to. I
shared the printer and then choose to uninstall from the other machines.
Then I went to printers and added it back in from accross the network from
the machine it is now installed on.
Well it installed just fine which again tells me the network is working or I
could not have gotten to this printer. However when I try to print to it I
get document failed to print. This happens from every machine except the one
the printer is actually connected to.
This leads me to believe that somehow there are updated Vista drivers left
over in the machines that once used this printer when connected to a Vista
machine.
I am looking for a way to somehow to force XP into replacing the drivers on
those machines with teh proper drivers or maybe manually removing the
drivers and reinstalling them. I just can not seem to figure out where those
are located on the client machines.
If I can not figure this out I will be forced to get a new printer because
in the long run it would be cheaper than the time involved in rebuilding the
other machines.
Anyone help with this would be great.
Thanks