Printer Sharing?

Posted: 08-31-2007, 08:52 PM

Eric

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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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Alan Morris [MSFT]

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Re: Printer Sharing?

Posted: 09-01-2007, 12:41 AM

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@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>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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