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LennoxB · 02-08-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Orangedog

I have private home network with a new Vista Home Premium computer. Vista
sees the XP computer that has the officejet V40 printer. But whenever I try
to connect a message says access is denied. what is up with that! Who says
access is denied, it is my computer and my private network. How do I allow
access to my own network? how many hoops do I have to jump through to
network to a printer. This should be a seamless operation and already too
much time has been wasted. Nice job microsoft!

I encountered this problem still (feb 2009). In many forums this link is named for an answer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx
This is no help, because it describes how VISTA shares printers, but the problem is to share a printer on a XP system so you can use the printer on the Vista machine. I found out the anwer to be:
* open configuration / printers
* select 'add printer'
* choose LOCAL printer
* select 'new port' and then 'local port' (not an IP port !)
* as port name use \\HOSTCOMPUTERNAME\PRINTERNAME where hostcomputername is the name of the pc the printer is fysically attached to and printer name is the shared name of the printer (you can look this up on the XP machine or by browsing network neighbourhood on vista machine)
* select the driver for this printer (by default it will select some printerdriver that is already installed on the vista machine, which usually isn't correct, so browse and select correct one)

This did the trick for me.

02-08-2009	#15 (permalink)
LennoxB vista business 1 posts	Re: Vista gives access denied to shared XP printer Quote: Originally Posted by Orangedog I have private home network with a new Vista Home Premium computer. Vista sees the XP computer that has the officejet V40 printer. But whenever I try to connect a message says access is denied. what is up with that! Who says access is denied, it is my computer and my private network. How do I allow access to my own network? how many hoops do I have to jump through to network to a printer. This should be a seamless operation and already too much time has been wasted. Nice job microsoft! I encountered this problem still (feb 2009). In many forums this link is named for an answer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx This is no help, because it describes how VISTA shares printers, but the problem is to share a printer on a XP system so you can use the printer on the Vista machine. I found out the anwer to be: * open configuration / printers * select 'add printer' * choose LOCAL printer * select 'new port' and then 'local port' (not an IP port !) * as port name use \\HOSTCOMPUTERNAME\PRINTERNAME where hostcomputername is the name of the pc the printer is fysically attached to and printer name is the shared name of the printer (you can look this up on the XP machine or by browsing network neighbourhood on vista machine) * select the driver for this printer (by default it will select some printerdriver that is already installed on the vista machine, which usually isn't correct, so browse and select correct one) This did the trick for me.
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