Thanks Alan... I never knew you could do that. Now, the bad news: I
did as instructed, chose "run as administrator, add printer", selected
add local port, and input "\\Yellow-pc\KODAK" (without quotes) into the
Port Name pop up box, and STILL got the same error ("Access is denied")
in the resulting "local port" pop up box.

Vista really, REALLY does not want me to use a printer over the
network. I am beginning to wonder if I insulted it's sister or
something ;-)

As always, thanks for helping, and I am still open to ideas... sigh...
- Bob


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I was wondering if UAC is off? Others say it has to be on.

"Moose95" wrote in message
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Thanks Alan... I never knew you could do that. Now, the bad news: I
did as instructed, chose "run as administrator, add printer", selected
add local port, and input "\\Yellow-pc\KODAK" (without quotes) into the
Port Name pop up box, and STILL got the same error ("Access is denied")
in the resulting "local port" pop up box.

Vista really, REALLY does not want me to use a printer over the
network. I am beginning to wonder if I insulted it's sister or
something ;-)

As always, thanks for helping, and I am still open to ideas... sigh...
- Bob


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Thanks Patrick. Yes, UAC was on. However, just for grins, I disabled
UAC and tried everything suggested above, with no success. I then
re-enabled UAC and tried again. Still no joy. (FYI, that "run as
administrator" option only appears when you have UAC enabled. I am not
any closer to a fix, but at least I am learning more about Vista.)
Still open to ideas... thanks - bob


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If you goto start-network do you see Yellow-pc there and if you click on it
can you see the printer?

"Moose95" wrote in message
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Thanks Patrick. Yes, UAC was on. However, just for grins, I disabled
UAC and tried everything suggested above, with no success. I then
re-enabled UAC and tried again. Still no joy. (FYI, that "run as
administrator" option only appears when you have UAC enabled. I am not
any closer to a fix, but at least I am learning more about Vista.)
Still open to ideas... thanks - bob


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Thanks Patrick. Yes, I can see the printer on the network, attached to
yellow-pc. However, when I try to right-click and add, I get the exact
same error as before. When I try to double-click, I get a similar
error: 0x00000709 - operation could not be completed.

FWIW, I can see the shared drives from the Yellow PC and open
everything on the D drive (with data only), but I am having a similar
issue accessing all of the C drive - Vista will not let me share the
whole C drive on the network, so I have to go into each folder to share
it separately. Very odd. On the D drive, all i had to do was share
"D", and it let me get to every subdirectory. Perhaps this is a clue,
and there is some directory on C that I need to make sure is set to
share...


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How long ago was it that it used to work ok? Do you think you could do a
restore if you have a restore point available before that time? Maybe
something got corrupted. Doing a restore might undo some things you've done
since then if you don't mind having that happen. start-all
programs-accessories-system tools-system restore...

"Moose95" wrote in message
...

Thanks Patrick. Yes, I can see the printer on the network, attached to
yellow-pc. However, when I try to right-click and add, I get the exact
same error as before. When I try to double-click, I get a similar
error: 0x00000709 - operation could not be completed.

FWIW, I can see the shared drives from the Yellow PC and open
everything on the D drive (with data only), but I am having a similar
issue accessing all of the C drive - Vista will not let me share the
whole C drive on the network, so I have to go into each folder to share
it separately. Very odd. On the D drive, all i had to do was share
"D", and it let me get to every subdirectory. Perhaps this is a clue,
and there is some directory on C that I need to make sure is set to
share...


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Oops I see yours and your daughters both don't work any longer and it's
since SP1, doing a restore to before then might get it working but you would
loose the benefits of SP1. If you can go back though and prove it and maybe
get with Kodak support and explain the situation maybe it's something with
their driver.
"Moose95" wrote in message
...

Thanks Patrick. Yes, I can see the printer on the network, attached to
yellow-pc. However, when I try to right-click and add, I get the exact
same error as before. When I try to double-click, I get a similar
error: 0x00000709 - operation could not be completed.

FWIW, I can see the shared drives from the Yellow PC and open
everything on the D drive (with data only), but I am having a similar
issue accessing all of the C drive - Vista will not let me share the
whole C drive on the network, so I have to go into each folder to share
it separately. Very odd. On the D drive, all i had to do was share
"D", and it let me get to every subdirectory. Perhaps this is a clue,
and there is some directory on C that I need to make sure is set to
share...


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P.S. I'm running a HP dv6000 laptop with Vista Home Premium and SP1 sharing
a printer (HP) on a HP Desktop with Vista Home Premium SP1 and sharing a
printer (Brother) on a XP desktop SP3, having no problems. You don't have
a different model printer you can try to eliminate the possibility of the
driver issue?
"Patrick C" wrote in message
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Oops I see yours and your daughters both don't work any longer and it's
since SP1, doing a restore to before then might get it working but you
would loose the benefits of SP1. If you can go back though and prove it
and maybe get with Kodak support and explain the situation maybe it's
something with their driver.
"Moose95" wrote in message
...

Thanks Patrick. Yes, I can see the printer on the network, attached to
yellow-pc. However, when I try to right-click and add, I get the exact
same error as before. When I try to double-click, I get a similar
error: 0x00000709 - operation could not be completed.

FWIW, I can see the shared drives from the Yellow PC and open
everything on the D drive (with data only), but I am having a similar
issue accessing all of the C drive - Vista will not let me share the
whole C drive on the network, so I have to go into each folder to share
it separately. Very odd. On the D drive, all i had to do was share
"D", and it let me get to every subdirectory. Perhaps this is a clue,
and there is some directory on C that I need to make sure is set to
share...


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Thanks Patrick. I have one of those "buy a computer, get a printer free
after rebate" little printers stashed in the basement somewhere - I will
dig it out and see if that does the trick. Nice to know your laptop is
working fine - I have a DV2500, and my daughter has a DV6500, so I am
beginning to think this is something to do with the printer, not
Vista... thought the printer USED to work just fine until sometime
around the SP-1 release. Perhaps it triggered a weird issue in the
Kodak Driver. There is essentially nothing on the Kodak boards, though
they are not the greatest in any case. I'll let you know what I find.
Thanks again for everyone's help, and feel free to chime in if something
rings a bell with you about this... I have almost resigned myself to
plugging in the printer to the laptop every time I have to print until
Windows 7 comes out! ;-) Thanks - Bob


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Not sure if you are still having problems. I too was having problems
connecting to a network printer.

I found and followed the following link and it resolved my issue:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...1183548AAjvWHe

Good luck.

Tracy

"Moose95" wrote:


Thanks Patrick. I have one of those "buy a computer, get a printer free
after rebate" little printers stashed in the basement somewhere - I will
dig it out and see if that does the trick. Nice to know your laptop is
working fine - I have a DV2500, and my daughter has a DV6500, so I am
beginning to think this is something to do with the printer, not
Vista... thought the printer USED to work just fine until sometime
around the SP-1 release. Perhaps it triggered a weird issue in the
Kodak Driver. There is essentially nothing on the Kodak boards, though
they are not the greatest in any case. I'll let you know what I find.
Thanks again for everyone's help, and feel free to chime in if something
rings a bell with you about this... I have almost resigned myself to
plugging in the printer to the laptop every time I have to print until
Windows 7 comes out! ;-) Thanks - Bob


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