Vista Can't print to a networked printer

>I have a laptop running Vista Business 32-bit version, a PC running XP pro
> and an HP PSC 750 printer hooked up to the xp machine and networked to the
> vista laptop.
>
> The Vista machine can see the printer but when I try to print nothing
> happens, no warnings or anything, the print job seems to dissapear.
>
> I have tried the trick where you set up the printer on the Vista machine
> as
> a local printer then change the port to \\computer name\printer name but
> when
> I click on the ok button to add the port access is denied.
> I have administrator privlidges on both machines, if that makes any
> diffrence, but I stll can't print to the networked printer.
>
> Please help me.
> Thank you very much for any advise.
>
> Jason

>
> "Jason"

> >I have a laptop running Vista Business 32-bit version, a PC running XP pro
> > and an HP PSC 750 printer hooked up to the xp machine and networked to the
> > vista laptop.
> >
> > The Vista machine can see the printer but when I try to print nothing
> > happens, no warnings or anything, the print job seems to dissapear.
> >
> > I have tried the trick where you set up the printer on the Vista machine
> > as
> > a local printer then change the port to \\computer name\printer name but
> > when
> > I click on the ok button to add the port access is denied.
> > I have administrator privlidges on both machines, if that makes any
> > diffrence, but I stll can't print to the networked printer.
> >
> > Please help me.
> > Thank you very much for any advise.
> >
> > Jason

>
> You can try setting it up as local on lpt 2 or 3 and
> using cmd with "net use lpt3 \\computer\printer"
>
> Worked for me,
>
> MK
>

> That was a sweeeet fix -- I wasn't the originator of this entry/question,
> but
> had the same exact problem -- worked like a charm, was doing a little
> dance
> when she worked!!
>
> "Maf-Kees" wrote:
>

>>
>> "Jason"

>> >I have a laptop running Vista Business 32-bit version, a PC running XP
>> >pro
>> > and an HP PSC 750 printer hooked up to the xp machine and networked to
>> > the
>> > vista laptop.
>> >
>> > The Vista machine can see the printer but when I try to print nothing
>> > happens, no warnings or anything, the print job seems to dissapear.
>> >
>> > I have tried the trick where you set up the printer on the Vista
>> > machine
>> > as
>> > a local printer then change the port to \\computer name\printer name
>> > but
>> > when
>> > I click on the ok button to add the port access is denied.
>> > I have administrator privlidges on both machines, if that makes any
>> > diffrence, but I stll can't print to the networked printer.
>> >
>> > Please help me.
>> > Thank you very much for any advise.
>> >
>> > Jason

>>
>> You can try setting it up as local on lpt 2 or 3 and
>> using cmd with "net use lpt3 \\computer\printer"
>>
>> Worked for me,
>>
>> MK
>>