Vista - Getting Vista 64-bit PC to print on a Win/XP

After trying at least a dozen suggestions without success, I followed this procedure to be able to print on a locally attached printer on a network PC with Win/XP home from another PC on the network that is running Vista Home Premium 64-bit ......

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Open the Printers folder on the client computer from which you want to print, right-click a blank part of the window, click Run as administrator, click Add Printer.
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In the Add Printer wizard, click Add a local printer.
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On the Choose a printer port page, click Create a new port, select Local Port, and then click Next.
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In the Port Name dialog box, type the network path to the printer to which you want to print. For example \\server1\printer1 (where server1 is the computer name of the print server and printer1 is the share name for the printer). Then click OK.

Note: Creating a local port instructs the client computer to use its own printer driver to render the printer as a RAW print job and send it directly to the port (which in this case goes to the print server). This obviates the need for the print server to provide feedback to the client, which can work around some authentication issues, as well as issues with mismatched driver versions on the print server and the client computer.

Cheers ... Wayne

Thanks. This is a very good piece of info.