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Old 08-31-2007   #1 (permalink)
Eric


 
 

Printer Sharing?

I have a home network via a wireless linksys router. I have my printers
connected to my desktop, which is a WinXP Pro machine. I have printer
sharing enabled and have no problems printing from my other WinXP Pro PCs. I
recently got a new laptop that has Windows Vista Home Premium on it. I am
able to see the shared printers when I path to the PC with the printers
connected to it, but everytime I attempt to connect to the printer I get an
error that says: "Windows cannont connect to the printer. Access is denied."


Any ideas?

Thanks


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Old 08-31-2007   #2 (permalink)
Alan Morris [MSFT]


 
 

Re: Printer Sharing?

open a command window

dir \\xpmachine\print$

do you get access denied at this point?

Is the guest account enabled?



Vista network configuration

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx






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"Eric" <Eric@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

>I have a home network via a wireless linksys router. I have my printers
> connected to my desktop, which is a WinXP Pro machine. I have printer
> sharing enabled and have no problems printing from my other WinXP Pro PCs.
> I
> recently got a new laptop that has Windows Vista Home Premium on it. I am
> able to see the shared printers when I path to the PC with the printers
> connected to it, but everytime I attempt to connect to the printer I get
> an
> error that says: "Windows cannont connect to the printer. Access is
> denied."
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>

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