vista x64 - XPhome x86 Canon printer problem

[Guest]

My printer is hooked up to Vista RC1 x64 and is shared.
I can see the printer that is hooked up to Vista RC1 x64 on my parents
XPhome x86 computer.
But when i try to print from the computer running XPhome x86, in my home
network it doesn't work.
I get a message that says something like; the server for the printer Canon
Inkjet i965 doens't have the right printerdriver.
I've already tried to instal the canon i965 printer driver for windows XP
from canon on XPhome x86, with no succes.
Printing from Vista RC1 x64 works fine.

Can you help me, so my parents can print from there XPhome x86 computer to
my printer, hooked up to Vista RC1 x64

Best regards Dennis C.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

From the computer that has XP Home installed, navigate to Start
Printers and Faxes and select Add printer from the left panel.
Choose Next and to add a Network printer. Follow the on-screen
rpompts.

Let us know.

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User


| My printer is hooked up to Vista RC1 x64 and is shared.
| I can see the printer that is hooked up to Vista RC1 x64 on my parents
| XPhome x86 computer.
| But when i try to print from the computer running XPhome x86, in my
home
| network it doesn't work.
| I get a message that says something like; the server for the printer
Canon
| Inkjet i965 doens't have the right printerdriver.
| I've already tried to instal the canon i965 printer driver for windows
XP
| from canon on XPhome x86, with no succes.
| Printing from Vista RC1 x64 works fine.
|
| Can you help me, so my parents can print from there XPhome x86
computer to
| my printer, hooked up to Vista RC1 x64
|
| Best regards Dennis C.

 

[Guest]

no succes.

I clicked on add a network printer, then clicked on find a printer in my
network, found it in my network list, selected it and clicked Next.

Next i got a message that says; Making connection with the printer;
you are about to make a connection with a printer on MY NETWORK,
there will automatically be installed a printerdriver on you computer.
In printerdrivers there can be hide virusses or scripts that can have
harmfull consequences for your computer.
It's important that you trust the computer that offers you this
printerdriver. Would you like to continue?

Then i clicked yes and get the following message.
Making connection with the printer; The server for the printer Canon Inkjet
i965 doesn't has the right printerdriver at it's disposal.
Click OK if you want to find the correct printerdriver.
Otherwise click Cancel and take contact with the networkadministrator or
supplier and ask the right printerdriver.

When i then click OK i get a window to manually locate the printerdriver
file, it says; The file *.INF on (unknown) is necessary,
type the pad to the file and click OK.
I have then already tried selecting the Canon Inkjet i965 printerdriver
(i965.inf) for windowsXP provided by Canon without succes.
When selecting that i965.inf file i'm getting the following error message.
Windows can't find a suitable printerdriver. Take contact with the
administrator to find and instal a suitable printerdriver.

It still doesn't work to add my printer hooked up to WindowsVistaRC1-x64 on
the XPhome-x86 computer.
What can i do?

note: The Windows messages that i wrote here are translated from dutch (the
XPhome-x86 computer is a dutch version)


Best regards Dennis

 

[Guest]

Hate to Burst your bubble here but this is one problem you aren't going to
solve easily. The issue isn't "where is the printer .inf filë?" It's the
fact that you CAN'T run a 64bit driver on a 32bit OS. Especially not a
Kernel Driver like a Printer inf. Windows XP WILL NOT install it. That's
why you get the "Can't find a Suitable Driver" Error. Only reason I know
this is I tried doing the reverse, Printing from a machine running Vista X64
to a printer attached to an XP machine running on 32 bit. Same Error. You
need to go to the printer properties for the Vista X64 machine an click on
Sharing tab, Click on Additional drivers button at the bottom and install the
32bit driver locally on vista. Then when the XP HOME box tries to connect it
should theoretically just pull the 32 bit driver directly from the vista
machine. BTW you've got to make the driver you're installing is actually the
32bit version and not X64. You might end up having to contact Cannon for the
right driver.

 

[asmas]

Hello
Did anyone get this to work??
I have the same problem with the Canon Printer Pixma IP8500.
I tried to do it the way described hereunder by selecting the X86 box. The
driver I then try to load is definately the right XP driver but is not
accepted by Vista 64!
Who knows the answers?
thanks
Andre

 

[Guest]

One big Problem you've got is that most drivers aren't written for 32bit os.
They WIL NOT INSTALL IN 64BIT OS. You need to conntact cannon and get the
64bit driver and install it locally on the vista machine.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

There are still Network issues in RC1 that are solved in the RTM.

Some have had success with the following:
Get the XP 32 bit driver for the printer from Canon's web site. Install
that on the XP machine. Select File as the port. When that is complete,
restart the machine and navigate the the printer driver's port settings.
Check to see if the network port is now present. If so, select it and OK
out. If not, try running the wizard to add a network printer again.

Let us know.

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User