Vista - Sharing Printer with WinXP Issues

I'm trying to share my printer on my WinV machine (it's a brother HL-1440
laserjet) with my WinXP machine in the other room. Now, I can SEE the
printer just fine on the other machine, but when I try to connect it says
that it will install drivers for this printer. This printer works fine when
I boot to XP on my winV machine, but when I try to let my other machine
install the drivers for it it says it can't find the drivers. Is this
looking on the WinV machine for the drivers or locally? Either way, I can't
see why it can't find the drivers. . .

I never had this issue in WinXP, it works fine on my network that way.
Also, Iv'e set to share the printer, set in printer sharing in the control
panel to allow sharing of my printer as well. Anyone have any ideas as to
why this isn't working? Please?

I hate to have to reboot to WinXP and leave it there everytime I leave just
so that people can print when I'm not home.

Thanks in advance!

Anyone help me out here? Same issue still persists and I don't know how to
resolve it. . .?

Thanks again!

"Skybase" <mtskybase@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:E973DC24-6CE2-4864-A0E5-B939057F07A9@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to share my printer on my WinV machine (it's a brother HL-1440
> laserjet) with my WinXP machine in the other room. Now, I can SEE the
> printer just fine on the other machine, but when I try to connect it says
> that it will install drivers for this printer. This printer works fine
> when I boot to XP on my winV machine, but when I try to let my other
> machine install the drivers for it it says it can't find the drivers. Is
> this looking on the WinV machine for the drivers or locally? Either way, I
> can't see why it can't find the drivers. . .
>
> I never had this issue in WinXP, it works fine on my network that way.
> Also, Iv'e set to share the printer, set in printer sharing in the control
> panel to allow sharing of my printer as well. Anyone have any ideas as to
> why this isn't working? Please?
>
> I hate to have to reboot to WinXP and leave it there everytime I leave
> just so that people can print when I'm not home.
>
> Thanks in advance!

It's looking to to install the drivers on yur XP box. Just use the "add
printer" function, browse to the Vista box printer and install the drivers
(you may need your printer driver disk or download the XP drivers from
Brother).


"Skybase" <mtskybase@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:E973DC24-6CE2-4864-A0E5-B939057F07A9@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to share my printer on my WinV machine (it's a brother HL-1440
> laserjet) with my WinXP machine in the other room. Now, I can SEE the
> printer just fine on the other machine, but when I try to connect it says
> that it will install drivers for this printer. This printer works fine
> when I boot to XP on my winV machine, but when I try to let my other
> machine install the drivers for it it says it can't find the drivers. Is
> this looking on the WinV machine for the drivers or locally? Either way, I
> can't see why it can't find the drivers. . .
>
> I never had this issue in WinXP, it works fine on my network that way.
> Also, Iv'e set to share the printer, set in printer sharing in the control
> panel to allow sharing of my printer as well. Anyone have any ideas as to
> why this isn't working? Please?
>
> I hate to have to reboot to WinXP and leave it there everytime I leave
> just so that people can print when I'm not home.
>
> Thanks in advance!

Okay, I have tried this but the Other machine running XP tells me that this
is not a suitable driver. It IS the WinXP driver. .same that I used on my
other machine when I had XP installed. It just seems as though something in
sharing isn't set up properly yet. Anything else I may be missing? Anyone
else have this issue in sharing a printer with a computer running WinXP?


"Rusty H" <blstthgREMOVE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OAzw8AmjGHA.1508@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> It's looking to to install the drivers on yur XP box. Just use the "add
> printer" function, browse to the Vista box printer and install the drivers
> (you may need your printer driver disk or download the XP drivers from
> Brother).
>
>
> "Skybase" <mtskybase@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:E973DC24-6CE2-4864-A0E5-B939057F07A9@microsoft.com...
>> I'm trying to share my printer on my WinV machine (it's a brother HL-1440
>> laserjet) with my WinXP machine in the other room. Now, I can SEE the
>> printer just fine on the other machine, but when I try to connect it says
>> that it will install drivers for this printer. This printer works fine
>> when I boot to XP on my winV machine, but when I try to let my other
>> machine install the drivers for it it says it can't find the drivers. Is
>> this looking on the WinV machine for the drivers or locally? Either way,
>> I can't see why it can't find the drivers. . .
>>
>> I never had this issue in WinXP, it works fine on my network that way.
>> Also, Iv'e set to share the printer, set in printer sharing in the
>> control panel to allow sharing of my printer as well. Anyone have any
>> ideas as to why this isn't working? Please?
>>
>> I hate to have to reboot to WinXP and leave it there everytime I leave
>> just so that people can print when I'm not home.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>

I am having the same problem with my Brother MFC-210c. I can see the printer
on my network but the winxp machine even with the latest winxp drivers from
brother says that they are not suitable. very odd

"Skybase" wrote:

> Okay, I have tried this but the Other machine running XP tells me that this
> is not a suitable driver. It IS the WinXP driver. .same that I used on my
> other machine when I had XP installed. It just seems as though something in
> sharing isn't set up properly yet. Anything else I may be missing? Anyone
> else have this issue in sharing a printer with a computer running WinXP?
>
>
> "Rusty H" <blstthgREMOVE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:OAzw8AmjGHA.1508@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > It's looking to to install the drivers on yur XP box. Just use the "add
> > printer" function, browse to the Vista box printer and install the drivers
> > (you may need your printer driver disk or download the XP drivers from
> > Brother).
> >
> >
> > "Skybase" <mtskybase@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:E973DC24-6CE2-4864-A0E5-B939057F07A9@microsoft.com...
> >> I'm trying to share my printer on my WinV machine (it's a brother HL-1440
> >> laserjet) with my WinXP machine in the other room. Now, I can SEE the
> >> printer just fine on the other machine, but when I try to connect it says
> >> that it will install drivers for this printer. This printer works fine
> >> when I boot to XP on my winV machine, but when I try to let my other
> >> machine install the drivers for it it says it can't find the drivers. Is
> >> this looking on the WinV machine for the drivers or locally? Either way,
> >> I can't see why it can't find the drivers. . .
> >>
> >> I never had this issue in WinXP, it works fine on my network that way.
> >> Also, Iv'e set to share the printer, set in printer sharing in the
> >> control panel to allow sharing of my printer as well. Anyone have any
> >> ideas as to why this isn't working? Please?
> >>
> >> I hate to have to reboot to WinXP and leave it there everytime I leave
> >> just so that people can print when I'm not home.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >
>

Glad that at least I'm not alone, but. . anyone happen to know how to get
around this?? It's the only reason I'm not solely running WinVista on this
machine.

Thanks again!~


"Rusty" <Rusty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3B1AA9EA-2034-4117-BC5E-E6FD70C86E5D@microsoft.com...
>I am having the same problem with my Brother MFC-210c. I can see the
>printer
> on my network but the winxp machine even with the latest winxp drivers
> from
> brother says that they are not suitable. very odd
>
> "Skybase" wrote:
>
>> Okay, I have tried this but the Other machine running XP tells me that
>> this
>> is not a suitable driver. It IS the WinXP driver. .same that I used on
>> my
>> other machine when I had XP installed. It just seems as though something
>> in
>> sharing isn't set up properly yet. Anything else I may be missing?
>> Anyone
>> else have this issue in sharing a printer with a computer running WinXP?
>>
>>
>> "Rusty H" <blstthgREMOVE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:OAzw8AmjGHA.1508@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> > It's looking to to install the drivers on yur XP box. Just use the
>> > "add
>> > printer" function, browse to the Vista box printer and install the
>> > drivers
>> > (you may need your printer driver disk or download the XP drivers from
>> > Brother).
>> >
>> >
>> > "Skybase" <mtskybase@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:E973DC24-6CE2-4864-A0E5-B939057F07A9@microsoft.com...
>> >> I'm trying to share my printer on my WinV machine (it's a brother
>> >> HL-1440
>> >> laserjet) with my WinXP machine in the other room. Now, I can SEE the
>> >> printer just fine on the other machine, but when I try to connect it
>> >> says
>> >> that it will install drivers for this printer. This printer works
>> >> fine
>> >> when I boot to XP on my winV machine, but when I try to let my other
>> >> machine install the drivers for it it says it can't find the drivers.
>> >> Is
>> >> this looking on the WinV machine for the drivers or locally? Either
>> >> way,
>> >> I can't see why it can't find the drivers. . .
>> >>
>> >> I never had this issue in WinXP, it works fine on my network that way.
>> >> Also, Iv'e set to share the printer, set in printer sharing in the
>> >> control panel to allow sharing of my printer as well. Anyone have any
>> >> ideas as to why this isn't working? Please?
>> >>
>> >> I hate to have to reboot to WinXP and leave it there everytime I leave
>> >> just so that people can print when I'm not home.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance!
>> >
>>

Got it working based on the link below:

Steve Rowe's Blog : Printer Problems on Vista x64

Steps for Win XP 32bit:

1. Download XP drivers from Brother website
2. Extract the downloaded drivers to the XP machine (using Winrar, etc.)
3. Right click on "OEMHL01A.inf", untick Read-Only and click OK

4. Edit "OEMHL01A.inf" with Notepad

Change

"Brother HL-1440 Series" = BROHL144.PPD,LPTENUM\BrotherHL-1440_serie0BD1,BrotherHL-1440_serie0BD1

To

"Brother HL-1440" = BROHL144.PPD,LPTENUM\BrotherHL-1440_serie0BD1,BrotherHL-1440_serie0BD1

5. Go to Printer & Faxes, right click and Add Printer.
6. Choose the network printer (on Vista machine)
7. Point to the folder extracted in Step 2, when prompted.

This worked for me, hopefully it works for you.

Have a nice day!