Progress! I finally discovered that Gateway had installed and turned on the
McAffee firewall as well as the Windows firewall. I turned it off and the
situation is improved.

I am now able to see, install and print using the Canon i960 printer
attached to the Vista machine from any of the XP machines. I am also able to
see the "Public Folder" shares on the Vista machine from any of the XP
machines. This is better.

I still can't see, install or print using the Samsung ML-1210 on the Linux
(Samba) box from the Vista machine.

I can see the Vista "Drive C" file share from the XP machines now, but when
I try to open the drive I get a "permissions" error. The permissions on that
share are exactly the same as the "Public Folder" share but the behavior is
different. I have tried this with and without password protection. Without
password protection I get the "permissions" error. With password protection I
am prompted for a user name and password, and then I get the "permissions"
error.

So, I'm getting closer, but still don't quite have things working.

Mike

"Mike Long" wrote:

My old WinXP desktop machine finally died this morning and I decided to
replace it rather than try to fix it. Of course you can't buy an XP machine
anymore so I wound up with a shiny new Gateway desktop with Vista Home
Premium installed. My home network consist of two desktop machines directly
connected (wired) to a Belkin wireless G router, several laptops connected
via wireless to the same router and a Linux box wired to the same router. The
Linux box is file and print server via Samba. I have an HP 990c printer
connected to one of the desktops, a Canon i960 connected to another and a
Samsung ML-1210 laser printer connected to the Linux box. All of the disks on
all of the machines and all of the printers are shared with the entire
network. Nothing is password protected. Everything worked fine until this
morning.

Unfortunately replacing one of the desktops with the new Gateway Vista
machine has caused nothing but trouble. I gave the Vista machine the same
workgroup name as all the other machines. The Vista machine is able to see
and manipulate the files on all of the other machines as well as print on the
HP 990c printer attached to the other desktop.

Problem #1: When I try to add the Samba printer on the Vista machine it is
not detected. When I type the name directly (\\server\lp, the same name that
works on all the other machines) I get an error message that says "Windows
cannot connect to the printer. The server print spooler is not running.
Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server machine."
Printing on this printer works fine on all the other machines. Windows
Explorer shows the server under "Network" with the other machines on the
network and I was able to map network drives (L: and M to the two Samba
data shares. However, when I try to open the server to see the shares and,
more important, the printer I get the error "\\SERVER is not accessible. You
might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the
administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. A
remote procedure call (RPC) protocol error occurred."

I went to the Network and Sharing Center on the new Vista machine and turned
Network Discovery on, File sharing on, Public folder sharing on, Printer
sharing on, Password protected sharing Off and Media sharing Off. I shared
the C drive and the connected Canon i960 printer.

Problem #2: All of the XP machines are able to see the new Vista machine
under View Workgroup Computers, just like they see all the other XP machines.
However, unlike the XP machines, any attempt to open the Vista machine to see
the shared components results in the error message "\\MachineName is not
accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource.
Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access
permissions. The network path was not found." Any attempt to access the Vista
machine shares from any of the XP machines yields the same result.

So, Vista can't see the Samba printer, but can see the Samba data shares.
Vista can see all the file and printer shares on the XP machines. The XP
machines can see the Samba printer and data shares. They can see the printers
and data shares on the other XP machines, but they can't see the file or
printer shares on the Vista machine. I've tried turning password protected
sharing on and creating identical users and passwords on all the machines
without any change. The only firewall running on any of the machines is the
Windows firewall. I have turned it off on all machines without any change. I
restarted the router to see if that would help, no change.

Problem #3: After all this fooling around I restarted the machine and
crashed to a "Blue Screen of Death". The machine restarted without any
apparent problem.

This machine is not going to be very useful to me if I can't get the network
happening. Any suggestions? I've tried pretty much everything I can think of,
or could find in the discussions.

Thanks,

Mike

So it sounds like you solved the problem I'm struggling with.
I have a VISTA x64 machine with i960 attached. It's shared and "Additional drivers" dialog show only x64 driver installed.
I also have XP Pro laptop, that used to have this printer attached to it. So it's still has the right driver for i960.
When I try to add i960 as a network driver to my XP laptop, the printer is visible on the VISTA machine. When I select it,it says something to the effect that it tried to install the driver, but correct version of the driver for XP was not found on the VISTA machine.
It then offers me to try to find driver myself. At this point I tried pointing it at the original package for i960 for XP that I have and the latest i960 driver from Canon from their website. But both are rejected by installer.
I tried using both of these packages to add additional driver on Vista, but they are rejected there also.
Canon site doesn't have a VISTA driver, it only has an "add-on" package.
So what did you do to get this working?

Thanks

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