Do you really mean 'disabled' - or just not designed and tested to work with
Win9x?
Clearly I can get Vista to print to a printer attached to a Win ME PC over
my network - I just can't get it to stay on-line on a restart.
The net print command worked as you indicated - but teh printer is still
shown as off-line.
Are you saying that because Vista is not designed to work with Win9x PCs,
this situation isn't fixable? Is there a workaround to keep the printer
on-line?
Regards
Howard - Sheffield
"Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote:
Quote:
> Actually connecting to a shared Win9x printer was disabled in Vista. I
> assume you created a local port that targets \\WindowsMEmachine\printershare
> in order to create the SMB connection.
>
> When the printer goes offline open a command prompt and type
>
> net print \\WindowsMEmachine\printershare
>
>
> you should get this returned.
>
>
>
> E:\>net print \\win98\xerox
>
> Printers at \\win98
>
>
> Name Job # Size Status
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> XEROX Queue 0 jobs *Printer Active*
> The command completed successfully.
>
>
>
> --
> Alan Morris
> Windows Printing Team
> Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto
>
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>
> "Howard - Sheffield" <Howard - Sheffield@xxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:4614B40C-0E6B-4D64-9AF8-5AC2A7829718@xxxxxx Quote:
> >I have (well at least my daughter has) a Vista home basic laptop - with
> > almost identical problems.
> >
> > I can connect okay (over a Netgear wireless network) to an Epson 760
> > printer
> > (using the standard Vista driver) which is connected to an older PC
> > running
> > Windows ME - but if the laptop goes to sleep, or is re-started - the
> > printer
> > shows up as off-line - and won't come back on line - using either the
> > standard or admin menus.
> >
> > The only successful method seems to be to delete and re-install the
> > printer
> > - every time you turn the laptop off. What a pain! (Not something I can
> > explain to my daughter how to do).
> >
> > I have seen some comments from Alan Morris elsewhere about disabling SNMP
> > on
> > the printer port - but even after re-installing from scratch (with teh
> > printer working fully) - the 'configure port' button shows up an error
> > when
> > clicking on it. So how do I get access to this SNMP setting (for a network
> > port).
> >
> > I have searched for hours on the internet for solutions to this issue -
> > and
> > there are literally thousands of posts to all sorts of technical forums
> > about
> > this same issue (with some pretty crazy suggestions being put forward).
> > Many
> > people obviously haven't realised that this is a straight Windows Vista
> > bug.
> > It works fine on Windows ME and XP - so isn't it about time that Microsoft
> > sorted this problem out - for all versions of Vista - and stopped people
> > pulling their hair out on this one.
> >
> > If I had a choice (except that this was a smart new laptop with Vista
> > Basic
> > on) - I would go straight back to Windows XP asap - at least it works!
> >
> > Come on Microsoft - you must know what the problem is by now - it's highly
> > repeatable for any number of printers. We all want a downloadable
> > hotfix/solution now!!!
> >
> > Howard - Sheffield, UK
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > "Corliss" wrote:
> > Quote:
> >>
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> The issue is when a vista machine "sleeps" or is logged off but still the
> >> machine is still running.
> >> As far as I can tell the vista machine does not refresh the printer list
> >> after the workstation comes back online.
> >> To fix this you must ensure that SNMP is not selected.You must restart
> >> your
> >> workstaion and problem solved.
> >> Once again when SNMP is selected and the workstaion goes into standby
> >> mode
> >> the list is not being refreshed.
> >> Cheers,
> >> Corliss
>
>
>