I have a home network via a wireless linksys router. I have my printers
connected to my desktop, which is a WinXP Pro machine. I have printer
sharing enabled and have no problems printing from my other WinXP Pro PCs. I
recently got a new laptop that has Windows Vista Home Premium on it. I am
able to see the shared printers when I path to the PC with the printers
connected to it, but everytime I attempt to connect to the printer I get an
error that says: "Windows cannont connect to the printer. Access is denied."


Any ideas?

Thanks

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:34:03 -0700, Eric wrote:

I have a home network via a wireless linksys router. I have my printers
connected to my desktop, which is a WinXP Pro machine. I have printer
sharing enabled and have no problems printing from my other WinXP Pro PCs. I
recently got a new laptop that has Windows Vista Home Premium on it. I am
able to see the shared printers when I path to the PC with the printers
connected to it, but everytime I attempt to connect to the printer I get an
error that says: "Windows cannont connect to the printer. Access is denied."


Any ideas?

Thanks

Eric,

You have 2 challenges here. The first is making your first Windows Vista
computer network with the Windows XP computers. Are you using Guest, or
non-Guest sharing on the Windows XP computers?
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/1...-together.html

The next challenge is getting a Vista computer to act as a client in sharing a
networked printer.
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/06/network-printing-from-windows-vista.html
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/0...ows-vista.html

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Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
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