"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:GKVCj.5926$Id3.1274@xxxxxx
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>I have a HP4L connected to a XP Home machine. It is set as a Shared
>Printer, and other machines on my home network can see it and print to it.
>
> I have a Vista Home machine on the same network tht can see the XP
> machine, and access the shared folders, but it can not connect to the
> shared printer. When I try to connect to the HP4L, I get an error message,
> ACCESS DENIED. I was thinking the error came from the XP machine --
> firewall problem or the like -- but I can't find any thing that would keep
> Vista out while letting all of my other machines in -- the other machines
> are all XP, some XP Pro, and some XP Home. The only machine that can not
> share the printer is the Vista machine.
>
> Do I need a printer driver on the Vista machine that works with the
> printer?
>
> <scratching head>
Of course you need a printer driver on your Vista box... just because the
printer is hanging off another box doesn't mean you don't need a local
driver on your Vista box. (Sorry, don't mean to sound harsh...)
Sorry to say, I don't have an answer for you. I went through the -exact-
same issue with my ten year old NEC SuperScript 1260 hanging off an XP Home
box. For months whenever I tried, out of curiousity, to connect to the
printer, I got the access denied msg. Then after numerous Vista system
updates, and numerous months, I tried again and it worked, out of the blue.
Well, I was happy but had no clue as to what got it working. For all I know
it might have been XP updates, not Vista updates, that fixed it...
That said... are your XP and Vista boxes up to date, patch wise?
Lang