XP and Vista Printer Sharing

[Matthew S. Armshaw]

I've bee ntrying to share a HP printer attached to a gateway desktop with a
gateway laptop running vista attached to a cisco router. way desktop running
XP home edition with a gateway laptop running Vista home premium. I've had
little luck.

I've installed the printer drivers on both cpus.
I've set the printer to sharing on the desktop.
I've looked for the printer in the network sharing center.

Maybe you could give me a step-by-step?

Matthew S. Armshaw

 

[Chuck [MVP]]

I've bee ntrying to share a HP printer attached to a gateway desktop with a
gateway laptop running vista attached to a cisco router. way desktop running
XP home edition with a gateway laptop running Vista home premium. I've had
little luck.

I've installed the printer drivers on both cpus.
I've set the printer to sharing on the desktop.
I've looked for the printer in the network sharing center.

Maybe you could give me a step-by-step?

Matthew S. Armshaw

Matthew,

Sharing a printer is sometimes a bit more complicated than sharing a file. Each
printer vendor writes their drivers differently from others, and that will
affect the installation process.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/05/file-sharing-and-printer-sharing-are.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/05/file-sharing-and-printer-sharing-are.html

When you're trying to access a printer shared by another computer, from a
computer running Vista, you may be better off creating a local port for the
printer under Vista.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/06/network-printing-from-windows-vista.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/06/network-printing-from-windows-vista.html

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
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