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Re: Still Cannot Add Network Printer - Access Denied
I haven't actually gotten anything to work either. that's not what i'm
saying. what i'm trying to say is that you gotta remember that MS in NOT
responsible for writing 3rd PARTY MFGs DRIVERS. Everyone that i've seen here
is running one of the big 3 MFGs printer, Cannon, HP, and Lexmark. Their the
ones we should be going after. the need to write drivers that are going to
install in vista when you try to connect to a network printer. Same thing
occurs in XP. different versions (Pro, HOME, MCE, etc. , don't like
networking either. their not alone. You ever tried to network a AIO printer
in LINUX? Have fun!!! I never could get it to work because you're talking
about 2 totally different OS. Essentialy that's what we're dealing with.
Vista and XP are similar in a lot of ways but, they are 2 different OS. Not
to mention the whole USB thing. The whole point in usb is that you have to
physically plug in the hardware you are gonna use. Kinda hard to do that on
a network unless u got a router that has a USB port u can physically connect
a printer to. Try PHysically pluging the printer into the vista box and
letting vista load the drivers. then change the port to you're XP machine's
ip address and printer name. it should work as vista isn't having to
replicate drivers from the XP machine. I''m gonna try it and let you know
how i make out.
"BigK" wrote:
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> "Jordan H." <JordanH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:50A6CB34-D674-47A5-806F-12A6B539B7E5@microsoft.com...
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> > Guys,
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> > Sitting here blaming microsoft is easy. they get blamed for everything in
> > the pc world so why not this too. We're all barking up the wrong tree.
> > It's
> > the Hardware MAnufacturers we've gotta go after here. they're the ones
> > writing the crappy drivers and such, not MS.
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> This might be true if it was one or two manufacturers. But I have yet to
> hear of ANYONE using Vista to connect to a network shared printer connected
> to a XP Home PC. If I am wrong please tell lus how you did with detailed,
> step-by-step instructions.
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