I just purchased a new Dell laptop for a family, and they already have an HP desktop. I also decided to make their network wireless so the desktop is now plugged in, and the laptop can go mobile around the house. A typical setup for wireless. I installed the dell printer I purchased along with it, on the desktop that’s almost always on and shared the printer.
Anyways, so the printer is installed, and prints beautifully if printing from the USB port on the main desktop, or, if printing from the laptop to the printer via USB. Just switching the USB cable between.
However, if I try to add a printer from the laptop running Vista Home Premium, I search for a network printer, and can see it perfectly, but I try to add it, and almost instantly receive an access denied message.
I turned off all firewalls and even though they were off, specifically checked to allow “file and print sharing” in the windows firewall. Nothing.
I hear though from searching around that this is a common problem, Windows XP Printer hosts and Vista not able to add them. My only guess was that Windows XP can’t serve the Vista machine the vista driver. But that doesn’t make sense because the drivers already installed from when I tested the printer on the laptop wired through USB.
Anyways, if anyone has had this issue and could help that would be great! Thanks.
