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Printer Sharing?
  1. #1


    Eric Guest

    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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  2. #2


    Alan Morris [MSFT] Guest

    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
    news:EA1A769B-C7AB-49EF-8EAD-DB276E3659E1@xxxxxx

    >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
    >


      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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