Vista - Printer sharing to XP printer won't work

At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am
going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it.
The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This
router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all
of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I
think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have
downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can
view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I
actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the
vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the
XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp
machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer
says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to
peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what
else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and
everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not
sure it can be done.

TIA,
Kirsten

You may try to install Vista printer driver in the XP computer. or these posts may help,

Vista: Cannot connect to the printer, access denied
Vista: cannot connect to the printer - error 0x000003e3
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewforum.php?f=1

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Kirsten" <Kirsten@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E56F27FF-9AC8-4351-AC2D-84AE8CAFECC6@microsoft.com...
At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am
going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it.
The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This
router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all
of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I
think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have
downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can
view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I
actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the
vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the
XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp
machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer
says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to
peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what
else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and
everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not
sure it can be done.

TIA,
Kirsten

I tried installing the vista driver on the xp machine and spent the next hour
trying to get my printer working again. The printer on the xp machine was
working until I did that. Are you sure my xp machine can take the vista
drivers? Should I have installed it as another printer? Should I choose
install as local or network? I also tried the disable bidirectional support
and I got a message saying I need to enable bidirectional support for it to
work. So no help there. I am so ready to give up. Any more ideas? Thanks.

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> You may try to install Vista printer driver in the XP computer. or these posts may help,
>
> Vista: Cannot connect to the printer, access denied
> Vista: cannot connect to the printer - error 0x000003e3
> http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewforum.php?f=1
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "Kirsten" <Kirsten@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E56F27FF-9AC8-4351-AC2D-84AE8CAFECC6@microsoft.com...
> At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am
> going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it.
> The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This
> router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all
> of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I
> think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have
> downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can
> view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I
> actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the
> vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the
> XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp
> machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer
> says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to
> peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what
> else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and
> everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not
> sure it can be done.
>
> TIA,
> Kirsten

In this case, try to add local printer as mentioned in the link.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Kirsten" <Kirsten@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6FC35CC2-5E1F-41A1-8486-2B03E318D6AC@microsoft.com...
I tried installing the vista driver on the xp machine and spent the next hour
trying to get my printer working again. The printer on the xp machine was
working until I did that. Are you sure my xp machine can take the vista
drivers? Should I have installed it as another printer? Should I choose
install as local or network? I also tried the disable bidirectional support
and I got a message saying I need to enable bidirectional support for it to
work. So no help there. I am so ready to give up. Any more ideas? Thanks.

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> You may try to install Vista printer driver in the XP computer. or these posts may help,
>
> Vista: Cannot connect to the printer, access denied
> Vista: cannot connect to the printer - error 0x000003e3
> http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewforum.php?f=1
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "Kirsten" <Kirsten@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E56F27FF-9AC8-4351-AC2D-84AE8CAFECC6@microsoft.com...
> At the risk of repeating many posts that I have read on many newsgroups I am
> going to try. I have an XP machine with a Dell 962 printer attached to it.
> The XP machine is wirelessly connected to a lynksys wireless router. This
> router is connected to the new Vista machine. I believe that I have put all
> of the patches on the XP machine that I have read about. I have made sure (I
> think) that the XP print drivers are not on the Vista machine. I have
> downloaded the vista drivers for the printer. The network is shared. I can
> view files and see the printer from the vista machine on the xp machine. I
> actually hooked the printer up to the vista machine and installed it with the
> vista print drivers locally. Then I unhooked it and hooked it back up to the
> XP machine. Then I changed the port on the vista machine to \\name of xp
> machine\name of printer. Everything looks like it should work. The printer
> says online and ready. Then when I try to print a test page I get a peer to
> peer message that says communication is not available. I don't know what
> else to do! Yes, I think I have checked fire walls and virus software and
> everything else. Please help! Although from what I've seen I'm just not
> sure it can be done.
>
> TIA,
> Kirsten