Access is Denied when setting up local printer port

[zofia70]

Hi,

I have 2 vista laptops that are connected over the LAN. One of the
vista laptop (laptop A) is connected to a Epson LQ 300 dotmatrix
printer locally on the usb port. From the other vista laptop (laptop
B) I can browse and print to this network printer through printer
sharing. However I have a need to add a local port to laptop B to
access this printer as we need to configure the printer name locally,
when I tried this UNC path \\laptopA\sharedprinter, I will get this
access is denied message and I will see a print job named "Remote
Downlevel Doc" on the sharedprinter.

UAC and Firewall are all turned off to eliminate the cause of the
denial issue.

How can I successfully connected this sharedprinter as local port
printer? Any help is appreciated.



Regards
Zofia

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

enable UAC reboot, then add the port.

If you have Ultimate, launch printmanagement.msc and add the port from
there.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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[zofia70]

Hi Alan,

Just tried, no luck. Any other options to go ?

Regards
Zofia

 

[zofia70]

Just an update, manage to resolve this issue by granting everyone
write access to the spooler printer directory in windows in laptopA.