Just an FYI for everyone. Printers don't show up in safe mode at all.
Remember, it's "safe Möde" no external drivers are loaded so the pc doesn't
even recognize that a printer's there. Now, for the latest news, I've
restarted both systems and now the vista rc1 pc can't start the Computer
Browser service as it's already running on the XP Home box. U guessed it,
now even file sharing won't work as the Vista box can't "see"the Xp Machine.
Another dumb question too, why can't you manually add a network place as in
XP?
"Kerry Brown" wrote:
> BigK wrote:
> > "Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
> > news:OWLg7qi5GHA.940@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >> I'm guessing because I don't have an XP Home box but here goes. XP
> >> Home uses the guest account for sharing. In Vista the guest account
> >> is disabled. Try creating an administrator account on the XP Home
> >> computer with the same user name and password as you use on the
> >> Vista computer. Boot the XP Home computer into safe mode and logon
> >> as administrator. In the security tab of the printer properties make
> >> sure the user you just added has appropriate permissions.
> >
> > In my Home box there is no security tab in the Printer dialogue box.
> >
> > This is a common problem that I hope MS will fix in the final build. One
> > should not have to do the above to make it work.
> >
>
> Were you in safe mode logged on to the administrator account? I don't have
> XP Home setup so I can't test it but for files and folders you have be
> logged in safe mode as an administrator to see the security tab. I assume
> printers work the same but I could be wrong.
>
> --
> Kerry
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca
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