Share printer home network windows vista

Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Networking. Sign in to vote. Hi all, Hope this is the right forum! If not please advise. I just upgraded to Win 7 on my desktop PC. My gf has a Vista machine next to me.

If you connect the printer to the laptop directly, certainly you could run update and find the driver for the printer. There is also another solution. We do not need to re-plug the printer. The following steps can be followed. First remove exited printer driver on the laptop. Find the icons which are related to Epson Stylus CX, and delete them. On the Drivers tab, select the listed printer and click the Remove button.

Please then select Remove driver and driver package. Try to remove all related printer software. Then add the shared printer. Click Start, click Control Panel and double click Printers. When UAC window pops up, click Continue to go on. Select "Add a local printer". Select "Create a new port". Choose "Local Port" as the type of the port. In the box "Enter a port name", type the address as the following format.

Then click Next. Follow the instruction to finish the installation. During installing, when your are prompt to choose a correct driver, click the button "Windows Update". Wait for the process finish, and try to find the driver for Epson Stylus CX in the driver list.

Finish the installation. Thank you again. This thread will be helpful for many users. Thanks again Arthur!!! After I got done tripping over my own stupidity, your instructions worked perfectly and saved me from having to order another CD from Epson. I can now print from my desktop and my laptop what a relief!

I hope this thread helps others who are having this problem, glad I could add a bit of info to help figure it out. To Add the shared printer:. Good Luck!

Epson Stylus CX Vista driver s download page. Good Luck. My printer is Canon iPD. I had it hooked up to Windows XP 32 bit and shared. And I had all sorts of troubles with network discovery and such. But it worked fine for the last 2 years.

Then I built a new ocmputer, installed Windows 7 Pro 64 bit , and hooked up the printer and shared it. I changed the local port name on my Vista laptop, but it wouldn't work - job just sits in the Vista print queue with an error. On my Vista laptop I have the 32 bit drivers that I've been using for the past two years - shouldn't have to change anything.

I made sure to add "Everyone" to the permissions list and gave them full rights. This hardly seems proper, but there it is. At one point, a month or two back, I tried to print from Vista and I received a password prompt to authenticate my user account. When I did this, I was able to print. But when I disconnected and then reconnected to network I had to do it all over. Password authentication was undesirable anyway - I want simple sharing.

Changed some obscure printer or print spool settings. Did not help. Note that if you are on your home network and no, I do not mean a Windows 7 homegroup , it should be considered a private newtwork, not public, and therefore in Network Sharing the settings you need to alter are under Private, not Public.

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