vista cannot see my wireless laptop

[Guest]

I have a home network using a dlink DI-624 wireless router. I have one
windows 2k machine connected by ethernet and one windows vista connected by
ethernet and one laptop with windows XP connected via wireless. The windows
2k machine can see the laptop and can print to a laser printer connected to
the laptop. The windows vista allowed me to set up the printer but when I
try to print it tells me access denied. What is going on?

Also I have connected my old HP deskjet 540 printer to the vista machine and
there is no driver for this printer. Can it use another driver or is vista
not supporting old printers?

Any help appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Hi DBAJohn,

The first thing I would do is ensure you still have connectivity between the
two machines. Once that has been confirmed, make sure that you have allowed
either your user or the EVERYONE group permissions to print to the shared
print device, and to the printer itself.

Good luck!

M

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. Over the weekend I reset my router to broadcast the
SSID and and vista was able to see the lalptop. It was strange, the network
from vista said it was there, I could ping it, it let me set up the printer,
but when I tried to print to the printer attached to the laptop it said
access denied. Anyway, its working now. The other issue I has with not
being able to set up my hp deskjet 540 I was able to work around by telling
vista it was a deskjet 500, it had a driver for that and the printer works
fine.