Problem setting up network printer

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I cannot print to a shared network printer. (XP to XP Media Center, both
with SP@ installed.) I tried uninstallling and reinstalling (after manually
deleting all drivers to see if that was the problem) and on reinstalling the
network printer, there are no drivers being copied from the main computer
where the printer resides. After setting up the printer, I get a message
that the printer was successfully installed, but the message is wrong. When
I go to the network printer icon and select properties, it gives the message
that the drivers are not installed...and they should have automatically been
installed during the setup process. What would be preventing this from
happening? Since I get no error message, I cannot tell what is happening.
When the old drivers were still there, I also could not print...it just gave
me error message that printing had failed. I am wondering if there is a
security fix that is preventing the printer from sharing...or if a service
that is needed might be disabled.
 
The PC that's not running Media Center, is it running Home or Pro?

Which make and model of printer?

Which PC is the printer connected to... the Media Center one or the other
one?
 
The PC was running Home with SP2 and all updates applied. I finally got it
to work by installing the printer a different way. The XP Home would never
copy the driver files from the Media Center computer when I installed from
the Printer window, even though it said the install was successful. So I
went to the Network places, and right clicked on the printer and chose
connect. It complained that the driver files were the wrong ones (don't know
why that was) and asked to look for new files. I pointed to the files on the
XP Home computer (same ones I'd installed on the Media Center) and they were
then installed and the printer worked. Thanks for trying to help.
 
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