Problems printing to shared printer

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Okay guys,
Im not a beginner or a novice either but Im stuck.
I have my desktop with a lexmark printer installed. The machine is running
XP.
File sharing is enabled and I have no problems accessing my shared files.
My laptop is running vista and everytime I try to print to it I get the
message problem communicating with the printer.
Lexmark states I cant share the printer. Any ideas
Thanks
 
I should add, the printer is enabled for sharing. everything is setup
correctly but it does nothing on the printer
 
I would check if there is a new driver for Vista first. Or this link may help,

Vista issuesmy Vista computer but when I go to install it I get an access denied message. ... Also make sure the Vista have the printer driver available. ...
http://www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistanetissues.htm


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Okay guys,
Im not a beginner or a novice either but Im stuck.
I have my desktop with a lexmark printer installed. The machine is running
XP.
File sharing is enabled and I have no problems accessing my shared files.
My laptop is running vista and everytime I try to print to it I get the
message problem communicating with the printer.
Lexmark states I cant share the printer. Any ideas
Thanks
 
I have a nearly identical problem as Trumeister, different brand new laptop
and printer but the Vista and XP problems are the same. The printer is an
Oki c5150n for which there are currently no Vista drivers. the network sets
up, the Vista laptop reads the XP PC files opens them, but when I attempt to
connect to the printer I receive an "Access Denied" message. I have enabled
file and printer sharing on both computers.
 
That is the exact problem I am having. I get the access denied
message. The problem I think is the the XP machine will not let the
Vista have the right security settings to install the printer. When I
right click the printer on the Vista, and click Security, I not that
the Vista does not seem to be under the everyone group which only
allows printing but not installing??????
 
That is the exact problem I am having. I get the access denied
message. The problem I think is the the XP machine will not let the
Vista have the right security settings to install the printer. When I
right click the printer on the Vista, and click Security, I not that
the Vista does not seem to be under the everyone group which only
allows printing but not installing??????





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Got it working!!!!!!!!!!!!
See http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Access-Denied-Error-Installing-Shared-er-FIX-ftopict42601.html
 
The lexmark printer does have a vista driver which has been installed on the
vista machine. The xp machine has the xp driver. Sorry, no joy and website
provided didnt really help either.
 
It is a lexmark x1270 printer that has the xp driver installed on the xp
machine (compaq)(could be the whole problem there in just one word - compaq)
and the vista driver on the vista machine (Laptop)(Acer - not much better
than compaq) everything is set correctly for sharing. I can see all my files
and I can see the printer. Vista even lets me add and remove the printer on
the laptop recognizing its on my network and advising it is able to conect to
it. I have gotten to the point where if I print something it shows up as a
print job on the printer properties but it just sits there and does nothing
and of course the phyiscall printer never does anthing. There is nothing wong
with the printer, it prints just fine when I start a print job from xp or if
I connect the printer directly to the lap top via usb. I shouldn't have to do
this.
Any idea's - thanks
 
This is the exact problem i am having aswell, although when i click the print
button my printer just lets the file sit in the waiting box and never prints.
I have connected my printer via USB and it still says that 'communtication is
not available' !what have i done wrong??
ideas-??
thanx
 
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