Windows 2000 Shared Printers Always "Not Ready"

[Bruce Scherzinger]

I've got two types of printers in my home. One that is connected to a
network sharing device and the rest that are connected in various ways
to a Windows 2000 machine. Once I put the new Vista machine into the
same workgroup as the others, the printers being shared by the Win2k
machine were found by the Add Printer wizard. However, when I try to
connect to ANY of the printers shared by the Win2k machine, Vista says
it cannot connect to the printer because it is "Not Ready". I have
verified that ALL of the shared printers are ready. What is going on?
Does Vista not support printing to Windows 2000 shared printers?

Thanks in advance.

Bruce
Vienna, VA

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

How are the printer(s) connected to the Win2K PCs... USB or LPT?

Which application(s) are you printing from?

 

[Bruce Scherzinger]

Uhm...BUMP!

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Vista connects fine to my Win2k machine sharing an Apple laserwriter.

If you are running Pro make sure you do not have more than 10 concurrent
connections.
--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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[Jeffrey Randow]

I might recommend the performance and reliability update that updated
network printing support. Before that update, printing in Vista was
painful to network printers on downlevel print servers.