Vista Network Printing (Vis-duh?)

[Pablo]

New Vista PC (duh) with existing HP 5550 local printer. Works great.

Kids existing XP PC with existing different (C3150) HP local printer works great.

Network via a wired router. Speedy and good.

Network magic on both PC's. Everything recognized both ways. Sharing all good and turned on.

Old PC (kids) can print at my 5550 printer via the network, no problem.

New PC can almost see C3150 printer on kids PC, but can't print. Some sort of driver error. I un-installed this printer from my PC and tried to re-install, but same driver error. Downloaded latest Vista driver from HP. No help.

It's almost like the Vista printer driver won't work with the XP connected printer.....I can't remember the exact words of the error message but it keeps telling me I need to install the driver, and then it give me a "booking(?)" error..????

Any clues?

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Looks like you're not the only one:
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/576845-another-vista-printing-problem.html
http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=219564

 

[Pablo]

holy keerap

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Try this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913628

 

[Pablo]

None of these helped.....hmm... tough one.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Pablo, try this change. I ran into this when migrating printers & printer drivers from a Win2000 server to Win2003 server. I'm not sure if this setting exists in Vista, but it's worth a shot.

From TechRepublic:
You can disable that in group policy.

Start->run->gpedit.msc

The policy is defined under
Computer Configuration->Administrative
Templates->Printers

Look for the setting "Disallow installation of printers using kernel-mode
drivers". It should be 'Not Configured' (it's enabled by default). Set it
to 'disable'.

 

[Pablo]

No gpedit.msc in Vista. Shoot me your email and I'll send screen shots.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

I forgot, in Vista, there is no Start > Run (5 years for this??)

Windows Key + R combo brings out the Run box from the shadows of the OS.

 

[Pablo]

I have a RUN box but there is no gpedit.msc.

 

[Julian]

I just went through all this stupid printer business not too long ago. If you can be more specific, I might be able to give you a tip or two in layman's terms. Maybe reading some of the articles in my thread could help in some way even if I can't personally...

http://theoildrop.server101.com/forums/s...ge=2#Post920945

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Here's why there's no gpedit.msc on your copy of Vista...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070618213927AAH1f8u

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Here's the registry value to look for (since gpedit.msc isn't available):

http://www.boyce.us/gp/gpcontent.asp?ID=248

set it to 0 if it's there.....

 

[Pablo]

I cannot find HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers!KMPrintersAreBlocked in my registry...

 

[Julian]

Can you be any more specific about your problem (hardware, software, error messages)? I might be able to find you some resources; maybe Mike can look at them to see if they are any good...

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Microsoft's HTTP-based newsgroups are looking better and are much quicker. Here's the Vista printing link:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communi...8f-f80a663ba699

I'll peruse through the above link to see if anything might help solve this issue.