When you turn on file and printer sharing, both file and printer sharing are turned on. Is there a way to turn on printer sharing only? by default, c$ is always shared on windows XP pro, I am not sure about vista/windows 7 home premium. So there is some security risk with file sharing, while there is less risk with printer sharing. The PCs are behind the firewall, however, there is a...

Greetings, I have been searching for some time for an answer for this issue but i have not yet been able to find a fix. PROBLEM: I cannot add a TCP/IP Printer attached to my network. System Information: Gateway 6860 Laptop Windows Vista Home Premium x64

Logical printers on Server 2003 showed off line immediately after hardening the network. XP PCs work just fine. Disabling the SNMP on the port configuration of the driver is not an option because the driver is setup to print to a queue and certain application need the SNMP to monitor the print jobs. What is the security setting that won't allow the SNMP communication between the driver on the...

How do I reinstall the Microsoft XPS Document Writer Printer in Vista if it was deleted from the Printers folder as well as deleted from the Drivers tab on the Printer Server Properties? I've tried using the drivers in the "C:\Windows\System32\spool\tools\Microsoft XPS Document Writer" folder on the XPSPort but I get "Printer driver was not installed. Unable to find a core driver package that is...

I do remember this was an issue when I switched from XP to Vista. I solved it then, but don't remember the solution. Now I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 64-bit and Office 2007 Standard and the issue is there again. All my received faxes are in My Documents/Fax/Inbox and those that I sent are in My Documents/Fax/SentItems. When I run the Windows Fax and Scan app, I can see all the faxes...

Logical printers on Server 2003 showed off line immediately after hardening the network. XP PCs work just fine. Disabling the SNMP on the port configuration of the driver is not an option because the driver is setup to print to a queue and certain application need the SNMP to monitor the print jobs. What is the security setting that won't allow the SNMP communication between the driver on the...

Hi, I have a Vista Home edition. One day, I try to print a document, the popup screen have no printer for me to select. I go to Control Panel and click the printer icon, All my printer driver are gone. So I click the "Add Printer" button to add new driver, but then it pop up a warning message saying that my printer spooler is disable and tell me to reboot the computer. I reboot it and...

hello somes old postscript printer (hp laserjet 4, hp color laserjet 4500), are in standard vista list but no win7 do ou known easy way to activate them, using their ppd file?

Hello! Using HP Photosmart 7960 as shared printer off of XP Pro SP2 machine. Works great for the other XP machines that share it. Tried to connect (via network share) my (new) 64Bit Vista Home Premium box to this printer. Of course, it asked for the Vista printer drivers, which do exist. So, the challenge - the drivers won't install on the XP machine, as they are Vista drivers and error...

I've been experiencing a very annoying problem with an HP 6200 series. The printer is connected via a USB HUB to my VISTA PC. Regularly I have to connect this printer direct to another PC, which cannot be networked with the VISTA PC. Now here's the weird part: Sometimes (most of the time) the printer will disappear from the Vista PC, but not always. When it does disappear, it re-installs when...

Just registered and second post. Have searched unsuccessfully for a fix to my problem. My printer worked well for a few years until yesterday when whenever I tried to print something the results were eg.: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W#C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" and on for several pages of similar but different characters which make no sense to me. I've uninstalled the printer, reinstalled...

Just registered and second post. Have searched unsuccessfully for a fix to my problem. My printer worked well for a few years until yesterday when whenever I tried to print something the results were eg.: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W#C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" and on for several pages of similar but different characters which make no sense to me. I've uninstalled the printer, reinstalled...

I was using Umax Astra 5600 scanner with my old system but now when I upgraded my pc to 64 bit it stopped working ///// \ pleasee give me a solution .... iffu

I was using Umax Astra 5600 scanner with my old system but now when I upgraded my pc to 64 bit it stopped working ///// \ pleasee give me a solution .... iffu

Environment: Vista preminum 32-bit Printer: Toshiba eS451c, it is a network printer shared a few people in the office. Other people do not have the problem. Problem: The spooler keeps stopping without any reason. Restart the spooler. can initiate print once (prints OK) then it stops again. Check the spooler's properties, they a Startup type: Automatic

I have this printer from some years and I'm happy with it. Now the problem is with Win Vista. There is not a specific drive for this Printer under Vista. The printer print ok, no problem for this, the problem is the Printer Monitor that can not see the inks status. So I can not know if a cartridge is out of ink. Tried to contact Espon for new driver but no chance. Any Idea? TIA

hello somes old postscript printer (hp laserjet 4, hp color laserjet 4500), are in standard vista list but no win7 do ou known easy way to activate them, using their ppd file?

I've been experiencing a very annoying problem with an HP 6200 series. The printer is connected via a USB HUB to my VISTA PC. Regularly I have to connect this printer direct to another PC, which cannot be networked with the VISTA PC. Now here's the weird part: Sometimes (most of the time) the printer will disappear from the Vista PC, but not always. When it does disappear, it re-installs when...

Greetings, I have been searching for some time for an answer for this issue but i have not yet been able to find a fix. PROBLEM: I cannot add a TCP/IP Printer attached to my network. System Information: Gateway 6860 Laptop Windows Vista Home Premium x64

Printer HP 710c doesn't work under windows vista 64 and windows 7 64. Does anyone have a solution? I did everything HP's website says to do and it didn't work.