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| | Getting a Vista laptop to print wirelessly to a printer on a networked desktop. I haven't had much luck with following scenario. In our home network we have an XP Desktop (wired network) that has a Canon Multifunction Unit Pixma we use for color printing. We also have a networked (wired) Vista Desktop with a Konica Minolta PagePro 1350W for monochrome printing. I have a MacBook Pro with both Leopard and XP Pro and both OS's can print wirelessly to the two desktop attached printers. However, I cannot get my wife's Toshiba Laptop running Vista Home Premium to print to either unit. All machines are part of the same home workgroup. I can see the other computers and printers on the Vista laptop, but the laptop cannot find them with the add a printer utility/applet. Sharing is enabled throughout the network and everybody is in the same subnet. I have the Network and Sharing center setup on the Vista Desktop and laptop to Private network, discovery is on, etc. I have googled the heck out of this problem, but the answers and help sites have not shown me anything I have not tried already. Any suggestion to get wireless printing from the Vista laptop going besides downgrading to XP Pro? :-) TIA |
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| | Re: Getting a Vista laptop to print wirelessly to a printer on a networked desktop. Vista Print Policy settings: http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/arc...int-print.aspx Windows Vista Help Printing: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win.../printing.mspx -- click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm see ''rate a post'' Mark L. Ferguson "in Technicolor®" <cinerama@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:mIc5k.20451$3j2.8725@xxxxxx Quote: > I haven't had much luck with following scenario. In our home network we > have an XP Desktop (wired network) that has a Canon Multifunction Unit > Pixma we use for color printing. We also have a networked (wired) Vista > Desktop with a Konica Minolta PagePro 1350W for monochrome printing. I > have a MacBook Pro with both Leopard and XP Pro and both OS's can print > wirelessly to the two desktop attached printers. However, I cannot get my > wife's Toshiba Laptop running Vista Home Premium to print to either unit. > > All machines are part of the same home workgroup. I can see the other > computers and printers on the Vista laptop, but the laptop cannot find > them with the add a printer utility/applet. Sharing is enabled throughout > the network and everybody is in the same subnet. I have the Network and > Sharing center setup on the Vista Desktop and laptop to Private network, > discovery is on, etc. I have googled the heck out of this problem, but > the answers and help sites have not shown me anything I have not tried > already. Any suggestion to get wireless printing from the Vista laptop > going besides downgrading to XP Pro? :-) > > TIA |
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| | RE: Getting a Vista laptop to print wirelessly to a printer on a netwo In vista's Network and Sharing, click on "Add Network Device" and browse to your Printer. Then follow prompts. Make sure that you have the Printer's Vista compatible Driver installed in the vista laptop. -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "in TechnicolorĀ®" wrote: Quote: > I haven't had much luck with following scenario. In our home network we > have an XP Desktop (wired network) that has a Canon Multifunction Unit Pixma > we use for color printing. We also have a networked (wired) Vista Desktop > with a Konica Minolta PagePro 1350W for monochrome printing. I have a > MacBook Pro with both Leopard and XP Pro and both OS's can print wirelessly > to the two desktop attached printers. However, I cannot get my wife's > Toshiba Laptop running Vista Home Premium to print to either unit. > > All machines are part of the same home workgroup. I can see the other > computers and printers on the Vista laptop, but the laptop cannot find them > with the add a printer utility/applet. Sharing is enabled throughout the > network and everybody is in the same subnet. I have the Network and Sharing > center setup on the Vista Desktop and laptop to Private network, discovery > is on, etc. I have googled the heck out of this problem, but the answers > and help sites have not shown me anything I have not tried already. Any > suggestion to get wireless printing from the Vista laptop going besides > downgrading to XP Pro? :-) > > TIA > > |
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