Printer sharing to XP printer won't work

[Guest]

At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am
going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it.
The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This
router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all
of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I
think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have
downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can
view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I
actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the
vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the
XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp
machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer
says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to
peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what
else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and
everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not
sure it can be done.

TIA,
Kirsten

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

You may try to install Vista printer driver in the XP computer. or these posts may help,

Vista: Cannot connect to the printer, access denied
Vista: cannot connect to the printer - error 0x000003e3
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewforum.php?f=1

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am
going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it.
The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This
router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all
of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I
think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have
downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can
view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I
actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the
vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the
XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp
machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer
says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to
peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what
else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and
everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not
sure it can be done.

TIA,
Kirsten

 

[Guest]

I tried installing the vista driver on the xp machine and spent the next hour
trying to get my printer working again. The printer on the xp machine was
working until I did that. Are you sure my xp machine can take the vista
drivers? Should I have installed it as another printer? Should I choose
install as local or network? I also tried the disable bidirectional support
and I got a message saying I need to enable bidirectional support for it to
work. So no help there. I am so ready to give up. Any more ideas? Thanks.

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

In this case, try to add local printer as mentioned in the link.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
I tried installing the vista driver on the xp machine and spent the next hour
trying to get my printer working again. The printer on the xp machine was
working until I did that. Are you sure my xp machine can take the vista
drivers? Should I have installed it as another printer? Should I choose
install as local or network? I also tried the disable bidirectional support
and I got a message saying I need to enable bidirectional support for it to
work. So no help there. I am so ready to give up. Any more ideas? Thanks.