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July 8th 07, 08:00 PM
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Printer sharing to XP printer won't work
At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am
going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it. The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not sure it can be done. TIA, Kirsten 
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July 9th 07, 02:31 AM
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Printer sharing to XP printer won't work
You may try to install Vista printer driver in the XP computer. or these posts may help,
Vista: Cannot connect to the printer, access denied Vista: cannot connect to the printer - error 0x000003e3 http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewforum.php?f=1 Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Kirsten" wrote in message ... At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it. The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not sure it can be done. TIA, Kirsten
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July 9th 07, 04:36 PM
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Printer sharing to XP printer won't work
I tried installing the vista driver on the xp machine and spent the next hour
trying to get my printer working again. The printer on the xp machine was working until I did that. Are you sure my xp machine can take the vista drivers? Should I have installed it as another printer? Should I choose install as local or network? I also tried the disable bidirectional support and I got a message saying I need to enable bidirectional support for it to work. So no help there. I am so ready to give up. Any more ideas? Thanks. "Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote: You may try to install Vista printer driver in the XP computer. or these posts may help, Vista: Cannot connect to the printer, access denied Vista: cannot connect to the printer - error 0x000003e3 http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewforum.php?f=1 Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Kirsten" wrote in message ... At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it. The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not sure it can be done. TIA, Kirsten
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July 10th 07, 01:10 PM
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Printer sharing to XP printer won't work
In this case, try to add local printer as mentioned in the link.
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Kirsten" wrote in message ... I tried installing the vista driver on the xp machine and spent the next hour trying to get my printer working again. The printer on the xp machine was working until I did that. Are you sure my xp machine can take the vista drivers? Should I have installed it as another printer? Should I choose install as local or network? I also tried the disable bidirectional support and I got a message saying I need to enable bidirectional support for it to work. So no help there. I am so ready to give up. Any more ideas? Thanks. "Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote: You may try to install Vista printer driver in the XP computer. or these posts may help, Vista: Cannot connect to the printer, access denied Vista: cannot connect to the printer - error 0x000003e3 http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewforum.php?f=1 Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Kirsten" wrote in message ... At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it. The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not sure it can be done. TIA, Kirsten
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