Vista Home Premium and XP Home printer sharing

So generally, I wouldn't be coming around seeking for advice (I'm not
cocky or anything, just haven't found any form of solution to my
issue).
So here's my issue:
The XP Home machine hosts a Canon MP780, my Vista Home Premium box is
on the same network. File sharing works well but when I try to connect
to the printer (This is also on an administrator account, UAC's
disabled). I get the error, you are not permitted to do that or
something along those lines. Has anybody had such an issue?


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On Tue, 22 May 2007 06:08:43 +0530, finsta <finsta.2qynfq@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:

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>So generally, I wouldn't be coming around seeking for advice (I'm not
>cocky or anything, just haven't found any form of solution to my
>issue).
>So here's my issue:
>The XP Home machine hosts a Canon MP780, my Vista Home Premium box is
>on the same network. File sharing works well but when I try to connect
>to the printer (This is also on an administrator account, UAC's
>disabled). I get the error, you are not permitted to do that or
>something along those lines. Has anybody had such an issue?

When you connect to the XP Home server, you're not using the administrator
account. With XP Home and Simple File Sharing, the Guest account is what you
use for network access.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...indows-xp.html

The old "access denied" or its variants have many causes. A misconfigured of
overlooked personal firewall is one frequent one.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/mysterious-error-5-aka-access-denied.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...ss-denied.html

Combining Windows XP and Vista on the LAN can have challenges, but they aren't
unsolvable ones.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/1...-together.html

At least you do have file sharing working.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/05/file-sharing-and-printer-sharing-are.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/0...aring-are.html

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