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Acces Windows Home Printer from Windows Vista

Jul 5, 2007 11:09PM PDT

I've a little lan.

One pc, with Windows Home has a printer connected and shared as it have some folders shared.

The shared resources works fine from other windows xp machines, but from a windows vista one, I only can use shared folders, when i try to use a shared printer I get permission error.

Of course, shared folders and printers are shared with no restriction.

Any Idea?

Thanks in advance,

Aesux

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Sorry But Could You Make this a bit more clear
Jul 6, 2007 2:54PM PDT

Ok well is the printer on vista if so i can help if it is on Windows Xp Sorry.

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vista on lan to XP printer
Jul 6, 2007 6:45PM PDT

I had this problem with a Compaq laptop I was trying to set up to use a printer on another computer, I ended up setting it up as a local printer - I went to Control Panel, Printers, Add Printer, choose add a local printer, clicked on create a new port, left default Local Port, clicked next, a box will come up type in \\yourcomputername\yourprintername, example \\HP\OfficeJet - I used the address that the previous networking wouldn't let me do, I installed Vista Drivers next by picking my printer from the list, left it as shared and printed a test page.

I would imagine if you don't have Vista supplied drivers for your printer you would have to run the install CD on to be able to do this and maybe the local port information can be added then. The laptop was the only Vista machine I had to do this with an Acer Vista desktop was able to be done the right way using network printer but it couldn't find it so I had to type in the address to connect.

Hope this helps,
Northlite

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Try this
Jul 6, 2007 9:36PM PDT
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Network Magic
Jul 7, 2007 12:39AM PDT

I have never been able to get Network Magic to work, I have tried it on and off over the years mainly because I usually share my broadband and like to keep track of who is on it, this product is highly recommended by AOL to use and actually gets installed to use during the CD set up, the problem is it also will run in the back ground of your computer during boot up and while its running, this is fine if you want to monitor your network but not if you are only using it to hook up a printer and it is using system resources.

Northlite

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You don't have to have
Jul 7, 2007 2:10AM PDT

Network Magic running in the background. Simply remove it from the startup group and use it when you want.