Hi,

I can't access a shared printer on XP Home NL from a Vista Home Premium
NL laptop. It seems to be a rights problem.

I can make a shared printer on the Vista machine. When printing to it. I
briefly see the print job in the printer window (queue) on the XP machine.

Username and passwaord are equal. Workgroup is equal. I can use a share
on the XP home machine from Vista allthough it's very slow accessing
I tried:
- guest account enabled on both machines.
- \system32\spool all rightts for everyone
- reinstalled the XP home
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx
- http://www.vistabits.nl/fout_0x00000...erkprinter.htm
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947236
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941542/
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937697/en-us

TIA

Greetings/
________/Rein

http://www.reindejong.nl

Run the XP's file and Printer sharing wizard!

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx

Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.

Permissions/Share info is there as well.

If using Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro I.S., make sure file and printer
sharing is enabled in THEIR firewall.

1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is
the SAME.

In Vista Network and Sharing:

Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers)

Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)

File Sharing: ON

Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared
Docs)

Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and
passwords on ALL computers in your Network) If you have it ON, you will be
asked for a username and password when you try to access a Vista computer
from an XP computer.

Also, run the XP’s Home Network File and Printer Sharing Wizard to include
Vista in your “New� Network, even if you had an XP Network set up prior to
adding a Vista computer to it.

--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"PureFox" wrote:

Hi,

I can't access a shared printer on XP Home NL from a Vista Home Premium
NL laptop. It seems to be a rights problem.

I can make a shared printer on the Vista machine. When printing to it. I
briefly see the print job in the printer window (queue) on the XP machine.

Username and passwaord are equal. Workgroup is equal. I can use a share
on the XP home machine from Vista allthough it's very slow accessing
I tried:
- guest account enabled on both machines.
- \system32\spool all rightts for everyone
- reinstalled the XP home
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx
- http://www.vistabits.nl/fout_0x00000...erkprinter.htm
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947236
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941542/
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937697/en-us

TIA

Greetings/
________/Rein

http://www.reindejong.nl

PureFox wrote:
Hi,

I can't access a shared printer on XP Home NL from a Vista Home
Premium NL laptop. It seems to be a rights problem.

I can make a shared printer on the Vista machine. When printing to
it. I briefly see the print job in the printer window (queue) on the
XP machine.
Username and passwaord are equal. Workgroup is equal. I can use a
share on the XP home machine from Vista allthough it's very slow
accessing I tried:
- guest account enabled on both machines.
- \system32\spool all rightts for everyone
- reinstalled the XP home
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx
- http://www.vistabits.nl/fout_0x00000...erkprinter.htm
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947236
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941542/
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937697/en-us

TIA

Greetings/
________/Rein

http://www.reindejong.nl

I had a similar problem (XP system with printer and Vista laptop that could
not add the XP printer). The problem seemed to be resolved when I installed
SP1 on Vista.

Gordon schreef:
PureFox wrote:
Hi,

I can't access a shared printer on XP Home NL from a Vista Home
Premium NL laptop. It seems to be a rights problem.

I can make a shared printer on the Vista machine. When printing to
it. I briefly see the print job in the printer window (queue) on the
XP machine.
Username and passwaord are equal. Workgroup is equal. I can use a
share on the XP home machine from Vista allthough it's very slow
accessing I tried:
- guest account enabled on both machines.
- \system32\spool all rightts for everyone
- reinstalled the XP home
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx
- http://www.vistabits.nl/fout_0x00000...erkprinter.htm
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947236
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941542/
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937697/en-us

TIA

Greetings/
________/Rein

http://www.reindejong.nl

I had a similar problem (XP system with printer and Vista laptop that could
not add the XP printer). The problem seemed to be resolved when I installed
SP1 on Vista.


Ok, Thanks I'll wait until SP1 NL is available. All other suggestions
didn't work :-(

--

Groetjes/
_______/Rein.

http://www.reindejong.nl