Vista networking with a USB printer

[Steve]

Hello all. I need a bit of help. I have been tearing my hair out for a few
days now. My mother has a Desktop computer with XP Home SP2 installed. She
just bought a laptop with Vista. After a few days getting the Laptop to play
nice with the wireless network I have hit a brick wall. My mother has a
printer that is hard wired to the XP computer. She wants to be able to print
from the laptop to this printer. The problem is, the printer is a USB
printer from Lexmark. I have tried everything I could to try to get the
Vista machine to print. The laptop has the drivers installed, all
permissions are set correctly on both computers. If I connect the printer to
the laptop via the USB I can print. And when the printer is connected the
the desktop XP system, Vista does see it. I just get an error message
everytime I try to print that says some archaic error message with a nunch
of 0000000. I researched this error message on the net and found that ther
is a possible known compatibility issue with Vista and wireless networks and
trying to access USB printers through the wireless network.

Anyone out there know if this is true and if so, how do I get the Vista
machine to print through the wireless network onto the USB printer.

Thanks

 

[Steve]

And yes, sharing is on.

 

[Keith D]

Hi

Try this with its full 30 day trial

http://www.networkmagic.com/download/

install in any computer not finding the printer
then run the section regarding add/install printer
make sure computers and printer are all on

It will search for printer
give it time--if its there it will find it

cheers for now

Keith D.

 

[Jay Somerset]

And yes, sharing is on.

Set it up as a LOCAL printer, with a port named
\\other-machine-name\printer-share-name. This was the subject of an earlier
thread. Here is the earlier info...
File Sharing
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx

File Sharing Help
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/9636e0f2-0223-45d2-89cb-3e317c4509051033.mspx

Network Location Types in Windows Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0906.mspx

The procedure should be in one of these.