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Networking Vista to XP to print

Posted: 01-12-2008, 06:38 PM
Morning, Last week I posted an issue with a Vista laptop attempting to
print to a XP desktop connected to a HP Deskjet 920C via USB.

What happened in this case is I installed the printer just like any other
network printer, but it doesn't print. I see the job in the queue, it
spools, prints and then the queue is blank
but nothing comes out of the printer. And there are no errors. I have
verified from the XP machine the printer does work

I found another article in Microsoft's TechNet Forums.

It says to add a NEW local printer and use UNC naming to add the printer to
the intranet. I have done this before at work with no problem.

Vista is suppose to have these drivers built in, but when we tell it to add
the printer after filling out the path to the printer \\computername\printer
(using the shared name)
it asks for the location of the driver. I do not know where to look for
this and when I go to HP's www site I can not download the driver as it says
it's built into
the Vista operating system and doesn't offer it for download.

Where would I point the wizard to for the driver? I looked in the
\windows\system32\drivers\en_US folder, but couldn't tell if I was in the
right place. I guess I could just keep putting
folders in until I found the right one, but I thought someone here might
have a better idea..

Thanks.

...Chip..


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