Vista - Brother MFC-6800 connected to XP PC

I have a MFC6800 connected to a Win XP home machine (not 64 bit).
I am trying to access the printer with a Win Vista 64 bit machine via a network.

I've tried suggestions found in other posts:

Installed the Brother to the Vista machine, then moved it to the networked XP PC and tried to point the Vista dialog to installed Brother drivers on the Vista box. But the Vista machine cant find the .INF file (I tried C:\Windows\, C:\Windows\System32, C:\Windows\SysWOW64 and a few others & where the other brother drivers are. No luck. What .INF file does it want?

I also tried to add a port to the XP installed printer (in my case \\OFFICE\BrotherM), but Vista won't let me add the backslash.

Any ideas?


all the drivers mentioned on the mfc6800 FAQ for win vista 64 (e.g., brold-Vista-0100 files); also the drivers in YL4FBxp.exe. Tried to install on either / both machines.

Hi mcrabbe

Welcome to the forums.

I went to the brother website but did not see any vista drivers available. Vista is prompting for the .INF file because it needs a Vista version of the driver. Looks like brother does not make it yet.

Here is where I started my search: http://www.brother.com/E-ftp/info/index.html

Raj

Raj
Thanks for trying to help... but for anyone else with this problem, here's how I solved it:


1) Drivers are avialable. See Brother: FAQs & Troubleshooting: [faq002453_000] I cannot print with Windows Vista® 64bit.: United States

2) Here are step by step instructions on how to make this work:
Setting Up A Shared Printer for XP and Vista

Cheers