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Re: Vista connecting to a PC with XP SP1?
I would have to say that you don't have a vista compatible driver for that
printer.
When you connect to a printer on another PC the Vista PC still has to have a
driver for it.
If there's not a compatible driver it simply wont work.
"Bryan Foster" <bryan@highlifter.com> wrote in message
news:CCA78C3E-D766-42C3-A699-7484E37E99D4@microsoft.com...
> Did that, I turned on file and print sharing. I didnt think I would need
> to manually need to create a port, any other ideas?
> Thanks
>
> "JP" <jp@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eFwrLi4THHA.528@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Check the firewall in Vista. You have to explicitly allow file and print
>> sharing.
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>> "Bryan Foster" <bryan@highlifter.com> wrote in message
>> news:0E8F0A6A-79E7-4E30-A656-1AFDA214519B@microsoft.com...
>>> Not possible? My boss just bought a new PC with vista home basic, they
>>> have a PC with XP SP 1 and I cannot get the vista PC to connect to the
>>> XP machine's printer. I know vista does not like connecting to printers
>>> on my windows 2000 server, any ideas?
>>> Thanks
>>>
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