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I replaced my old main desktop PC with a new desktop with windows vista home premium, this unit has printer connected to it. I have three PC's on my network my office PC, kids PC, and my laptop. Now the office PC is the new one with windows vista. The laptop has widows vista also. the kids PC has XP. the network is set up and I can see all three pc's just fine and all computers. trnasfer files between them with no issues. Working on setting up the network printer works fine on my two vista systems. On my XP unit i can't even see the printer tried adding network printer it see's my systems but no options for my network printer. Key points: I installed that LLTD hotfix and that did nothing. The workgroups are the same or I would not be able to do file sharing. The network printer works fine for my Vista systems. No firewalls blocking printing Also, my netwrok is on wifi Any sudjestions would be great thanks Leon
November 19th, 2007 12:35am

Hi Leon, From your post, I understand that there are three machines on the home network. One is Windows XP and the other two are Windows Vista. Everything works fine except that the network printer shared on a Windows Vista machine cannot be added to the Windows XP machine. Please senda screenshot for the error message when the Windows XP machine fail to add the network printer for further research. At the same time, please try the following steps to add the network printer: On the Windows XP machine, open Printers and Faxes folder In the folder, click Add a printer to launch Add Printer Wizard, click Next In the Local or Network Printer page, select the option A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer, and then click Next In the Specify a Printer page, select Connect to this printer , and type \\<IP address of the Windows Vista machine which the printer is plugged into>\<share name of the printer>, and then click Next Click Finish to complete the setting. Please capture a screenshot to me if there is any error message popped upwhen performing the above steps. Additionally, you may also submit this issue to Windows XP Newsgroup which is specialized in Windows XP product: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Hope it helps. Sincerely, Joson Zhou Microsoft Online Community Support
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November 20th, 2007 6:38pm

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