Network printer

Sorted guyz, one of my buddies has just found this and should help any others
out there that maybe having the same issue, i've copied and pasted the
solution below, hope this helps others out, its certainly worked for me.

Logically it makes no sense to me, but it worked so...

Go to Control Panel. Choose printer. Then choose Add Printer.

ChooseAdd a local printer. Click on Create a new port. The default in the
drop down box is Local Port. Do not change that. Click Next.

A dialogue box will appear asking for you to enter a port name. Type in the
\\computer name\printer name ie. My computer's name is basement and the
printer name is EpsonSty so I typed in \\basement\epsonsty

Yahoo! It worked. Go figure! I guess Microsoft thinks printers on a intranet
are local

"BigMick" wrote:

> Hi Guyz, need some help if possible before both machines become redundant,
> I'm running XP as my main desktop pc and have an epson printer installed on
> this machine, the printer is shared and installed correctly and working from
> my daughters xp machine which is running wireless from her bedroom, I have a
> laptop running vista which is also wireless but when i try to add the printer
> as a network printer to my vista laptop i get the error message of Windows
> cannot connect to the printer. Access is denied. The network itself looks
> fine because I can map a hard drive from any of the machines both to and from
> any of the machines running xp or vista, but I'm really struggling to add the
> printer to the vista enviroment, any help here would be very much
> appreciated, TIA guyz.

I have a new HP laptop with Vista and am trying to print to a network
printer. The printer is attached to a desktop with XP. The laptop recognizes
the two printers attached to the desktop, HP officejet and Dell inkjet, but
won't connect. Message indicates it needs a driver (INF file?) but can't find
it. I downloaded Dell drivers and tried that, but it won't recognize them. Do
I need to install special drivers on the desktop (XP)? I did receive error
message 0x800f0214 which I can't find in any Microsoft site.

netdc wrote:

> I have a new HP laptop with Vista and am trying to print to a network
> printer. The printer is attached to a desktop with XP. The laptop
> recognizes the two printers attached to the desktop, HP officejet and Dell
> inkjet, but won't connect. Message indicates it needs a driver (INF file?)
> but can't find it. I downloaded Dell drivers and tried that, but it won't
> recognize them. Do I need to install special drivers on the desktop (XP)?
> I did receive error message 0x800f0214 which I can't find in any Microsoft
> site.

1. You need the correct Vista drivers for each printer installed on the
Vista machine. Install the drivers and the printers should be seen during
the installation process.

2. You need to have set up file/printer sharing. Have you done this and are
you able to transfer files both ways?

3. You need to share out the printers connected to the XP machine.

Excellent, thorough, yet easy to understand article about File/Printer
Sharing in Vista. Includes details about sharing printers as well as files
and folders:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx

Problems sharing files between computers on a network are generally caused
by 1) a misconfigured firewall; or 2) inadvertently running two firewalls
such as the built-in Windows Firewall and a third-party firewall; and/or 3)
not having identical user accounts and passwords on all Workgroup machines;
4) trying to create shares where the operating system does not permit it.

A. Configure firewalls on all machines to allow the Local Area Network (LAN)
traffic as trusted. With Windows Firewall, this means allowing File/Printer
Sharing on the Exceptions tab. Normally running the Network Setup Wizard on
XP will take care of this for those machines.The only "gotcha" is that this
will turn on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a
third-party firewall or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm
Protection" (like Norton 2006/07) which acts as a firewall, then you're
fine. With third-party firewalls, I usually configure the LAN allowance
with an IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you
would substitute your correct subnet. Do not run more than one firewall.

B. For ease of organization, put all computers in the same Workgroup. This
is done from the System applet in Control Panel, Computer Name tab.

C. Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not
need to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords
assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just
need to exist and match on all machines. If you wish a machine to boot
directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for
convenience, you can do this. The instructions at this link work for both
XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

D. If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center:

1. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off
Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user
accounts/passwords on all computers.

2. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the Simple
File Sharing enabled. Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is
enabled. This means that anyone without a user account on the target system
can use its resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if
it matters in your situation.


Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

"netdc" wrote:

> I have a new HP laptop with Vista and am trying to print to a network
> printer. The printer is attached to a desktop with XP. The laptop recognizes
> the two printers attached to the desktop, HP officejet and Dell inkjet, but
> won't connect. Message indicates it needs a driver (INF file?) but can't find
> it. I downloaded Dell drivers and tried that, but it won't recognize them. Do
> I need to install special drivers on the desktop (XP)? I did receive error
> message 0x800f0214 which I can't find in any Microsoft site.

I receive the message 'file "*.inf" on (unknown) is needed'. I can't resolve
this.

I to have the same 0x800f0214 error, on my HP Laptop loaded with Vista
The Printer I am working with is HP 3380. I got this message when tryin
to down load the recommended driver from HP, which was the universa
driver for HP 3030. It would not install the driver because of thi
issue. This driver is suppose to have a fix for the repeating printe
icon problem that occurs when you unplug the printer and plug it bac
into a different USB Port.
there is no fix that I can tell after 7 hours of research.

Good luck Vista blows,

Marvi

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