Are all the PCs still in the same workgroup? Can they still share files
from one to the other?
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
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"Andy P" <AndyP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FA234D7F-7219-43D0-A463-3C01053859BD@microsoft.com...
>I have a Home Workgroup consisting of a Dell Vista Home Premium PC and a
>Sony
> Vaio XP Pro PC which has 2 shared printers attached to it.
>
> I have mapped my Dell Vista Home Premium PC to my XP Pro shared HP
> Laserjet
> 1300 & HP PSC 2400 by using the UNC and not the Printer Wizard (It didn't
> work at all). At that point the XP machine sharing the printers shows up
> in
> the Network folder. I then installed the appropriate printer drivers on
> my
> Vista PC. At that point, I was able to print test pages to both printers.
> However, when I rebooted the Vista PC, I am now unable to print any more.
> I
> either get an "RPC server unavailable" error or the document just sits in
> the
> print queue till I cancel the print job and then it is gone. The printers
> still show up in the Printer folders, but I can't print to them any more.
> Also, the XP Pro PC no longer shows up in the Network folder. I have
> followed all the procedures on Vista's website pertaining to Sharing Files
> &
> Printers between XP & Vista machines to no avail.
>
> Can someone help me out.
>
> Thanks.
>