Sharing a Printer across a network

Hi,

i have a HP Photosmart C5280 printer connected to my Desktop PC running Windows XP

I recently purchased a Dell laptop (Vostro 1700 with Vista Ultimate). Now i want to send documents created on my laptop to the printer through my network.

I have enabled sharing for the printer on my desktop. I can see the printer on the network screen on my laptop but when i try to connect i get a message saying access is denied.

I have installed the relevant drivers for vista on my laptop and it still has the same problem.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

go to network and sharing center....... in the bottom part you can see options for file and printer sharing...... turn it on

 

Check the security policy on the printer from the desktop to make sure that your laptop user account has access privileges to the printer.

 

The printer isn't installed on my laptop, that what I'm trying to achieve.

@ Shyster1: How do i do that, i gone on the printer on my desktop but i don't get the option you described

 

Did you select the printer that you want to share and made it shared. Just turning on file and printer sharing does not auto shares the printer.

 

Yes i did that as well, it says Acees is denied whenever i try to set it as a printer on my laptop.

 

When I get home later and have access to my own WinXP installation (I'm running on a gelded version of XP Pro right now), I'll try to work out the steps and post them for you.

 

thanks very much!

 

@Pudsey,

Unfortunately, Microsoft, in its infinite ... wisdom ... seems to have permanently disabled the way to set printer permissions in _Windows XP Home Edition (Bill Gates == Supernanny ). I've been trying to figure it out myself (I do not like being locked out of my own security apparatus-that's when "security" becomes just another prison); about the only thing I can suggest right now is to get into the Windows firewall and check to see if there's an exception for file and printer sharing, and that the tick-box has been ticked.

If that doesn't do it, let me know, and I'll see if I can't work it out for myself. In the meantime, you could also try going back to square 0 - disable file and printer sharing altogether, and then try to redo it step by step.

 

in your windows xp machine is the firewall set to allow file and printer sharing ?? (check the exceptions tab under firewall)

 

Do you have identical usernames and passwords on both machines? If not, create them, and then give the user access to the printer. If you right click on the printer, you should be able to select sharing, and then give access to the user you created.

 

I just posted this somewhere else about sharing and net credentials to an XP machine. There is a registry entry that needs to be changed to allow mapping from any account across the network.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
The value is forceguest and you need to set it to 0 (zero)

The easiest thing to do is set your username/password the same on both machines. If you didnt do that then just add a user on your xp machine with the printer and add it to admin group.

Now when you connect to the printer your laptops credential will use integrated authentication to connect and you won't be prompted for credentials.

To get the driver on your vista machine you can DL the driver from HP and expand it on to your laptop drive. When you are adding the printer and it gets to the driver part just point to the folder you expanded it to and make sure the search subdirectory option is checked.

That should do it.

 

One other point I want to make that seems to confuse some people about printing and wireless networks. It is not necessary to buy a *wireless* printer shareing device to print to a printer from a wireless client. You can buy a *wired* shareing device as long as your printer is near the router or an ethernet port connected to the router. As long as your wireless router does not isolate the wired/wireless segments like my first wireless router from Dlink then your wireless clients will be able to see the printer shared from the wired shareing device.

I answer that question a lot from friends. I would have thought it was pretty self explanatory but apparently not.

 

did you istall the link layer topology responder in xp machine???