Shared printer - XP desktop, Vista laptop

V

vea

I've read through several of the messages today trying to find a solution for
my problem. I have investigated several of the ideas without success. My
desktop has Windows XP and has the printer attached. My laptop has Windows
Vista. I tried sharing the printer by creating a wireless network. By all
appearances, my efforts were successful (I can see the desktop and printer on
the laptop) but every time I try to use or install the printer, I get the
following message "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could
not be completed (error 0x0000000d)."

Earlier today, I connected the printer directly to my laptop and
successfully installed and used the printer attached to the desktop. Since
that time I have tried a couple of different ways to move this forward, but
have not had any luck. It wouldn't surprise me to discover the solution is
something quite simple, but I just can't figure it out. Any assistance you
can offer would be most appreciated.
 
V

vea

Yeah, but the point of trying to get the network to function (at least for
me) was the convenience - the laptop is in a separate room from the desktop,
so it kind of defeats the purpose to have to run out to the desktop and
unplug the printer cable (one end or the other) and plug it into the laptop.
For marginally less bother than that I can either pull up whatever IE page I
want to print on my desktop and/or use a jump drive to print documents
created on the laptop from the desktop. I'll keep looking (I still can't
help be think it's something really simple that eluding me just because it is
so simple) and hope someone figures out whatever I'm overlooking.

Thanks
 
C

Charlie Tame

This is one of those issues that's hard to solve if you don't have it
yourself, if you see what I mean. The obvious thing to check and you
probably have is that some "Security" setting isn't causing trouble.
These days everything from AntiVirus to the official Windows firewall
delights in claining to make you safer, from yourself too, probably.
Certainly safe from the risk of wasting paper by the sounds of it. Won;t
insult your intelligence byt asking if you have checked those kinds of
things but you might try disabling them all and reboot (Set so they
don't start with windows) and see if anything improves. Presumably you
are using Microsoft "Windows" sharing so IP stuff shouldn't be the
problem is you can see the printer, however go back to it and check the
permissions and if your admin ID on the XP system is admin with password
pwd then set up a user on the Vista machine with the same, names (ie
admin and pwd) and see if that helps. If you can just get it going you
can work back from there and see what breaks it.

See if there's anything under printer settings or delete it and set it
up again and try that. I had similar crap with the wife's HP - that is
on an XP host and try as I might I could not get it to work from a Vista
or Linux machine yet from W200O or XP it was fine. From Vista or Linux
it just printed pages of garbage. Don't forget there's a spooler file
somewhere and your "Vista user" may not have permission to access that
file - if you become the XP admin user you may be able to print /
administer the printer so if by some chance that gets it running let us
know and you may solve the problem for a few people.
 

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