Hi All,
I am trying to share a printer over a Vista basic/XP network. The scenario is as follows:
Desktop running XP SP2 with a HP printer connected (hard wired) and set to share.
Lappy running Vista basic connected wirelessly on a network to the desktop through a netgear router.
When I look at the network map in vista (seems a good tool) I can see the desktop although it's annotated that it cannot be added to the group. I have downloaded the vista drivers for the printer and actually went as far as installing it onto the lappy. When I look in the network printers folder I can see the printer but when I select it and try to print a document it sits for 30 secs or so and then throws up an error message in the printer doalogue box which simply says 'printing error'
The firewalls are both set to allow the network and the various TCP/UDP ports as specified here, near the bottom of the page are also allowed.
http://http://technet.microsoft.com/.../bb727037.aspx
I now have a document sitting in the printer queue which although I have cancelled it and it's annotated as 'deleting' in the printer dialogue box wont delete and its screwing up any other docs which I'm trying to print as I test any changes I've made. I have rebooted several times and even the left the bugga overnight in the hope that the offending document would disappear from the printer queue but to no avail. Any ideas how to get rid of this document and what may be causing the printer problem?
Thanks in advance
Edited to add that all I really want to do is be able to print from the laptop. The laptop is basically my plaything for surfing and music/video and I dont need or want the expense of another printer for only very occasional use.
