Sharing a printer over a Vista/XP network
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Yes it works off the laptop directly, have installed the vista drivers, can see it in the network, but for whatever reason it will not ad it as a network printer. Even installed the vista drivers on the xp machine, as suggested in another forum, still can't print to it.
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Has the account you are using on the Vista laptop got access rights to the printer object on the other PC?
Or I should say, does "Everyone" have access to the printer? Can you attach to other resources from the Vista laptop - e.g. map to a shared drive? Can you supply alternative credentials - e.g. details of an account on the PC to which the printer is attached?
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Or I should say, does "Everyone" have access to the printer? Can you attach to other resources from the Vista laptop - e.g. map to a shared drive? Can you supply alternative credentials - e.g. details of an account on the PC to which the printer is attached?
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vista laptop can access shared files/folders on xp machine and vv.
sorry not sure what you mean?
Can you supply alternative credentials - e.g. details of an account on the PC to which the printer is attached?
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Spanners, did you install the printer drivers from CD?
Normally, when you search for and find a network printer Winders will download the appropriate files and then install them, get everything talking, etc. Now, I've had a Lexmark, a canon ip, and now an Epson AIO and an HP AIO networked here and I have had no issues regarding getting them to work. You must have made a mistake somewhere.
Normally, when you search for and find a network printer Winders will download the appropriate files and then install them, get everything talking, etc. Now, I've had a Lexmark, a canon ip, and now an Epson AIO and an HP AIO networked here and I have had no issues regarding getting them to work. You must have made a mistake somewhere.
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alternative credentials
Try googling for "not enough server storage is available to process this command" and vista - and / or go to the MS site. There does seem to be a problem with network file and print sharing throwing up this error. Do you have
Event ID : 2011
Source : Srv
Description: The Server's configuration parameter "IRPStackSize" is too
small for the server to use a local device. Please
increase the value of this parameter.
Source : Srv
Description: The Server's configuration parameter "IRPStackSize" is too
small for the server to use a local device. Please
increase the value of this parameter.
There is a registry key that can be added / modified to increase the IRPStackSize on the PC hosting the shared resource as well as the Vista PC. This may help to work around the problem.
SD
