Windows 2000 Shared Printers Always "Not Ready"

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Bruce Scherzinger

I've got two types of printers in my home. One that is connected to a
network sharing device and the rest that are connected in various ways
to a Windows 2000 machine. Once I put the new Vista machine into the
same workgroup as the others, the printers being shared by the Win2k
machine were found by the Add Printer wizard. However, when I try to
connect to ANY of the printers shared by the Win2k machine, Vista says
it cannot connect to the printer because it is "Not Ready". I have
verified that ALL of the shared printers are ready. What is going on?
Does Vista not support printing to Windows 2000 shared printers?

Thanks in advance.

Bruce
Vienna, VA
 
How are the printer(s) connected to the Win2K PCs... USB or LPT?

Which application(s) are you printing from?
 
I might recommend the performance and reliability update that updated
network printing support. Before that update, printing in Vista was
painful to network printers on downlevel print servers.
 
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