I have a local network that has severial Intel NetPort Express 10/100 print
servers connected to it.
I have severial computers running Windos 98 and XP Pro, these computers are
all able to talk to the
printers connected to the servers. I recently added a computer running
Vista to the network and am
not able to connect to any of the printers on the servers. When you go the
printer window and
select Add a printer, the Add Printer window comes up and I select add a
network printer it searches
for the printers and all of the printers on the print servers show up in the
window. If I select
any of the printers and select next I get a popup window that says:
"Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could not be completed
(error 0X0000084f)."

I receive the same message no matter what printer I select. Does anyone
know what this message means
and how I can connect to the printers on the print servers. I can log onto
the servers with IE using
there IP addresses and see all of the configuration information. The work
group name on all the
computers and print servers is WORKGROUP.

Poof..., I don't have time right now to find the references, however, the
information I found concerning network printers and Vista is that you need a
driver for the printer installed into your Vista OS. I also saw a workaround
to enable Vista to see the print server as a network printer. Not a fix for
me as there is no Vista driver support for my printer (although I do intend
to try an xp driver at some point). Good luck with your situation.

"poof" wrote:

I have a local network that has severial Intel NetPort Express 10/100 print
servers connected to it.
I have severial computers running Windos 98 and XP Pro, these computers are
all able to talk to the
printers connected to the servers. I recently added a computer running
Vista to the network and am
not able to connect to any of the printers on the servers. When you go the
printer window and
select Add a printer, the Add Printer window comes up and I select add a
network printer it searches
for the printers and all of the printers on the print servers show up in the
window. If I select
any of the printers and select next I get a popup window that says:
"Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could not be completed
(error 0X0000084f)."

I receive the same message no matter what printer I select. Does anyone
know what this message means
and how I can connect to the printers on the print servers. I can log onto
the servers with IE using
there IP addresses and see all of the configuration information. The work
group name on all the
computers and print servers is WORKGROUP.