How to share printers between Vista and XP

[Guest]

To share printers across a network between Vista x64 and any other operating
system do the following.

Vista
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Click Start >> Control Panel >> Hardware and Sound >> Printers
Click on Add a printer
Select Add a local printer
Create a new port >> Local Port >> Click on Next
Enter the port name for the network printer (i.e. \\Computer Name\Printer
Name)
Select the printer from the list
Continue until the printer is installed.

Other operating systems
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Find the Add printer wizard and do exactly the same method as for Vista.

With any luck your printer will already have printer drivers included with
Vista and obtaining drivers for other operating systems if they are missing
should not be a problem.

 

[Guest]

At least on RC2, 64-bit, you may also need to remove a password protection
checkbox from the shared printer if Vista is doing the serving.