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**cialviagra** · 12-20-2008, 04:21 PM

The Printer Sharing is turned on. That was the one thing I did do off the bat.

Short story, got it to work this morning, but for reasons that I'm not sure I understand. As in the past few attempts, I went down the Vista Add Printer gui, through the connect to a network printer path, and then to specify the printer on the network. Found the D7360 on the network (already set as a shared device on my XP box), and right mouse clicked over it and selected Open. No joy...got a "Could not connect to printer" dialog box. Hmm. Connect...another item on the menu. I then selected Connect and the Vista started to install the HP printer drivers. After that was done, I successfully printed a test page and then defined the D7360 as the default printer.

I think my problems started off when I followed the instructions from HP on installing the printer

. The kiddo is happy (once she gets her PC privileges back next week!) and I'm back to buying ink cartridges every other month. Lesson learned: to add a shared network printer on a Vista box, Connect to the printer first to install the drivers. Thanks for the help, nline. Owe you one.

12-20-2008, 04:21 PM	#3
cialviagra Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	The Printer Sharing is turned on. That was the one thing I did do off the bat. Short story, got it to work this morning, but for reasons that I'm not sure I understand. As in the past few attempts, I went down the Vista Add Printer gui, through the connect to a network printer path, and then to specify the printer on the network. Found the D7360 on the network (already set as a shared device on my XP box), and right mouse clicked over it and selected Open. No joy...got a "Could not connect to printer" dialog box. Hmm. Connect...another item on the menu. I then selected Connect and the Vista started to install the HP printer drivers. After that was done, I successfully printed a test page and then defined the D7360 as the default printer. I think my problems started off when I followed the instructions from HP on installing the printer . The kiddo is happy (once she gets her PC privileges back next week!) and I'm back to buying ink cartridges every other month. Lesson learned: to add a shared network printer on a Vista box, Connect to the printer first to install the drivers. Thanks for the help, nline. Owe you one.
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