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Printing, Faxing and Scanning with Vista A forum for using printers, scanners and fx with Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan) |
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Can't print to shared printer
Hi,
I can't print to a shared printer in Vista Home Basic. All PC's in the network are Vista, are set up correctly, have the same workgroup, have password protected sharing turned off, etc. I can see the printer on the network and can even double click on it, but when I try printing to it, it just doesn't print! Only printing from the host PC works, not from any network clients. A simple google search tells me I'm certainly not alone. Wow, who would have thought that such a simple thing like setting up a shared printer would be causing so much trouble? I've set up the share as a local port in the Add Printer dialog, and it still doesn't work. I haven't yet set up the share as LPTn with "net use" - I plan to try that next. I've seen Drompa's post he http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/23...-printer-vista and a reference to it here http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...0-b34c5eac10c3 regarding setting file and share permissions on the spool folder. I tried doing that, and it worked from an administrator account (as a matter of fact, about 15 seconds after I exited the permissions dialog, the network job started to print all by itself). But apparently it doesn't work from a standard account. Unless I fiddle around with the permissions some more. My question is this: What is Microsoft's "official" stance on Drompa's post? Why should it be necessary to manually set permissions on a network share? Doesn't a _network share_ imply that the permissions are set up properly by the operating system? I can't understand why something so simple on XP is such a royal pain on Vista... and like I said, a simple Google search shows I'm not alone... Anyone from Microsoft care to address this issue? |