help me with shared printers

CCPS · 12-29-2007, 06:18 PM

hello im trying to conntect my vista laptop to my printers on xp desktop. i got the laptop hooked up with cable no wireless and when i get into the network of shared printers and when i click connect it wont let me .. i access denied . i dont know what is up with it . i enabled all the things in the network and shared thing . idk . VISTA AHHH

Knoddy · 12-30-2007, 05:06 PM

hey mate i dont know if this will help but as long as your running vista 32bit it is possible firstly make sure your printer is shared on your xp machine and also make sure the vista printer sharing eature is enabled which you will find in the network sharing centre once that is done go to control panel on your vista machine then to the printer section im using classic view in the top left hand corner there will be a tab that says "add Printer" click on it then choose "add network,wireless or bluetooth printer" it should try and detect your shared printer automatically if it doesn't click on printer wasnt in the list then type \\yourxpmachinesname\yoursharedprintersname and it should be pretty simple from there if you have any trouble just post a reply and i will quite happily hand out the knowledge

SirKenin · 12-30-2007, 05:45 PM

Do you have Norton on there? If you do, take it off, then try it.

patrickv · 12-30-2007, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knoddy

hey mate i dont know if this will help but as long as your running vista 32bit it is possible firstly make sure your printer is shared on your xp machine and also make sure the vista printer sharing eature is enabled which you will find in the network sharing centre once that is done go to control panel on your vista machine then to the printer section im using classic view in the top left hand corner there will be a tab that says "add Printer" click on it then choose "add network,wireless or bluetooth printer" it should try and detect your shared printer automatically if it doesn't click on printer wasnt in the list then type \\yourxpmachinesname\yoursharedprintersname and it should be pretty simple from there if you have any trouble just post a reply and i will quite happily hand out the knowledge

yeah agreed with Knoddy, on vista just go to "start--> then type "run" in the search box, execute run and type "\\name of XP pc " ,"right-click" the printer then "connect" and done.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SirKenin

Do you have Norton on there? If you do, take it off, then try it.

haha that has to be one of the most ridiculous post, do you know i have a few machines with norton + a hardware firewall at the office and sharing/printers works flawlessly ?

be more efficient in your reply next time

cheers
cheers

aramp1 · 01-21-2008, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knoddy

hey mate i dont know if this will help but as long as your running vista 32bit it is possible firstly make sure your printer is shared on your xp machine and also make sure the vista printer sharing eature is enabled which you will find in the network sharing centre once that is done go to control panel on your vista machine then to the printer section im using classic view in the top left hand corner there will be a tab that says "add Printer" click on it then choose "add network,wireless or bluetooth printer" it should try and detect your shared printer automatically if it doesn't click on printer wasnt in the list then type \\yourxpmachinesname\yoursharedprintersname and it should be pretty simple from there if you have any trouble just post a reply and i will quite happily hand out the knowledge

Well, I'm having the same exact problem. I did all this and the vista laptop still can not find my printer. Any other ideas?

12-29-2007, 06:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
CCPS Silver Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: PA Posts: 183	help me with shared printers hello im trying to conntect my vista laptop to my printers on xp desktop. i got the laptop hooked up with cable no wireless and when i get into the network of shared printers and when i click connect it wont let me .. i access denied . i dont know what is up with it . i enabled all the things in the network and shared thing . idk . VISTA AHHH

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12-30-2007, 05:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
Knoddy New Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1	hey mate i dont know if this will help but as long as your running vista 32bit it is possible firstly make sure your printer is shared on your xp machine and also make sure the vista printer sharing eature is enabled which you will find in the network sharing centre once that is done go to control panel on your vista machine then to the printer section im using classic view in the top left hand corner there will be a tab that says "add Printer" click on it then choose "add network,wireless or bluetooth printer" it should try and detect your shared printer automatically if it doesn't click on printer wasnt in the list then type \\yourxpmachinesname\yoursharedprintersname and it should be pretty simple from there if you have any trouble just post a reply and i will quite happily hand out the knowledge

12-30-2007, 05:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
SirKenin banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,711	Do you have Norton on there? If you do, take it off, then try it.