Printer sharing between xp sp2 and vista home prem.

I had already tried everything that was mentioned in the links that you
posted and none of them worked. I had spent countless hours searching for a
solution to the problem and today I finally decide to give Network Magic a
try and belive it or not it worked. You can download the free version at
www.networkmagic.com. I know that it says that it is a 30 day trial but for
some reason you can continue to use it after the 30 days are up. To use
Network Magic you have to download and install it on all of the computers on
your network. The next step is to directly connect and install the printer on
the pc that is running vista. Once that is done, you then reconnect the
printer to the pc that is running XP, you then open Network Magic and
set it up your printer from there.

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Please see:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
> http://www.coribright.com/windows
>
> "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C00F4475-BAE2-46CC-BD58-8F2D69914D0B@microsoft.com...

> > My file sharing works fine. I have a desktop with xp home and a laptop
> > with
> > vista. My printer is a lexmark 1270 all in one. If I connect it to either
> > computer it prints fine. When I connect it to my pc running xp and try to
> > print to it from my pc running vista I receive an error that tells me that
> > vista needs to install the driver. When I try to install the driver I get
> > another error that tells me "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The
> > specified print monitor is unknown."
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> >

>
>

Hello all! I too am having the dreaded Print Monitor is unknown problem. My
Vista laptop can see the HP Photosmart C3180 on my XP Desktop, but it cannot
connect due to the Print Monitor error. I've tried installing the vista
drivers for the printer on this computer, but it still does not work.

I am currently trying the Network Magic solution, but I was wondering- Is
there any solution out there that doesn't involve third party software? I'm
sure there must be a way to fix this if a program is able to...

Wow, after doing a simple web search for this problem I found a quick fix.
Apparantly it has to do with disabling the User Access Control. All you have
to do is re-enable it, install the printer, then disable it again.

Stuuuupid vista, I suppose. I'd love to understand why that would make a
difference...