[Elissetecausa]

This one has me perplexed.

I have a HP Photosmart D7360 printer attached to my PC via a USB port. My PC is running XP SP3. My daughter's PC is running Vista Basic and is on my wireless 802.11g LAN, as is my PC. I can see her PC and share files, and she can see mine. Problem is, she can't share the printer. I've tried installing the printer drivers (for Vista) on her box and going through all the configuration settings in Vista to share the device. I shared the printer on her old machine (running XP SP3 as well) but I cannot under Vista. Been through the HP fora and can't see an answer. My options now are to do nothing, reformat her machine and install a clean copy of XP (I bought one last summer just in case), or get a wireless bridge for the printer. Or maybe there's some configuration setting I've not considered. Anyone else have this problem?

p.s. one of these days I'll get around to taking pictures of my rig and sharing them here. It doesn't look as sick as my water cooled Prescott, but my Zalman heat sink is cooling the 3.16GHz dual core nicely. And if Santa is good to me I'll put in that Velociraptor...

[leadmoffer]

In Vista's Network and Sharing Center is Printer sharing turned on?

[cialviagra]

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.