Can you add it to the Vista laptop directly? I wonder if it is a driver problem - Have you installed the Vista driver for the printer?

SD

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.:ugh:

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?

SD

vista laptop can access shared files/folders on xp machine and vv.

sorry not sure what you mean?

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.

When mapping a drive, you can elect to provide the account name and password of an account on the target PC when creating the mapping. This would help to identify if it is a permissions issue.

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
in the Event log in either / both the Vista PC and / or the XP PC with the printer?

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