Vista connecting to a PC with XP SP1?

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Not possible? My boss just bought a new PC with vista home basic, they have
a PC with XP SP 1 and I cannot get the vista PC to connect to the XP
machine's printer. I know vista does not like connecting to printers on my
windows 2000 server, any ideas?
Thanks
 
Did that, I turned on file and print sharing. I didnt think I would need to
manually need to create a port, any other ideas?
Thanks
 
I would have to say that you don't have a vista compatible driver for that
printer.

When you connect to a printer on another PC the Vista PC still has to have a
driver for it.

If there's not a compatible driver it simply wont work.
 
Apart from that, I found the upgrade to Vista killed all sorts of things I
had set on the network including shares. Your printer on XP shows that it is
shared, possibly but it may not actually be the same on Vista. It may need
to be shared there.
 
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