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Sharing a Printer does not work
The notebook trying to access the printer that is hooked up to the other
computer is able to find the printer when I select "Browse/Connect to this printer". I receive the message that it will "The server does not have the correct print driver installed" I Googled this problem, and a someone had this exact problem and posted it in a forum. Someone responded with a solution, but neither the original poster nor I understand what to do to solve the problem. Maybe someone else can figure out what is being said. http://forums.techarena.in/vista-print-fax/1207790.htm The printer is hooked up to a computer with Windows Vista. The other computer on the network has XP. I went to the website for my printer and attemtped to download different XP drivers on both computers (except the , but nothing worked. When I attempted to install the plug and play driver, the installation says it can not find the printer (but as I mentioned earlier, Windows is able to locate the printer). http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...5&swEnvOID=228 |
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Sharing a Printer does not work
You need to go to the Vista PC, go to the Control Panel, Printers, right
click on the printer, select Properties, then in the Advanced Tab, add the drivers for XP to the Vista PC. So either you will burn the file you downloaded from the HP website to a CD and physically take it to the Vista PC... or if the Vista PC has internet access, download again from the HP website..... or transfer the file(s) using your network. If it's an *.exe file, you probably want to run it on the Vista PC. It may tell you that it cannot run because the operating system is incorrect. In this case, you will have to use WinRar to expand the file into a folder (remember where you put it), and when you add the extra drivers to the Vista PC, point it to where you expanded the folder. It should find the file(s) and install them by itself. Then when you go back to the XP PC, it will have the drivers you need. Alternatively, when it tells you that the 'server' does not have the correct drivers installed, run the *.exe file on the XP PC, and then go through the process again. By now the XP PC does have the drivers installed and should find them. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "kevinla" wrote in message ... The notebook trying to access the printer that is hooked up to the other computer is able to find the printer when I select "Browse/Connect to this printer". I receive the message that it will "The server does not have the correct print driver installed" I Googled this problem, and a someone had this exact problem and posted it in a forum. Someone responded with a solution, but neither the original poster nor I understand what to do to solve the problem. Maybe someone else can figure out what is being said. http://forums.techarena.in/vista-print-fax/1207790.htm The printer is hooked up to a computer with Windows Vista. The other computer on the network has XP. I went to the website for my printer and attemtped to download different XP drivers on both computers (except the , but nothing worked. When I attempted to install the plug and play driver, the installation says it can not find the printer (but as I mentioned earlier, Windows is able to locate the printer). http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...5&swEnvOID=228 |
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Sharing a Printer does not work
Nice information you collect Cari. Thanks for this kind of nformation. -- mathewdavid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mathewdavid's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/125776.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/xp-print-fax/1236412.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Sharing a Printer does not work
What I try to add the drivers through the Properties of the printer, it will
only allow me to select .inf files (no idea why this would be since these are notes I believe). When I tried to run the .exe file on the Vista machine, it tells me that it can not find the printer. The same thing happens when I run it on the XP. When you say expand the file, it seems that the files are expanded already into a "Hewlett Packard" folder. "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: You need to go to the Vista PC, go to the Control Panel, Printers, right click on the printer, select Properties, then in the Advanced Tab, add the drivers for XP to the Vista PC. So either you will burn the file you downloaded from the HP website to a CD and physically take it to the Vista PC... or if the Vista PC has internet access, download again from the HP website..... or transfer the file(s) using your network. If it's an *.exe file, you probably want to run it on the Vista PC. It may tell you that it cannot run because the operating system is incorrect. In this case, you will have to use WinRar to expand the file into a folder (remember where you put it), and when you add the extra drivers to the Vista PC, point it to where you expanded the folder. It should find the file(s) and install them by itself. Then when you go back to the XP PC, it will have the drivers you need. Alternatively, when it tells you that the 'server' does not have the correct drivers installed, run the *.exe file on the XP PC, and then go through the process again. By now the XP PC does have the drivers installed and should find them. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "kevinla" wrote in message ... The notebook trying to access the printer that is hooked up to the other computer is able to find the printer when I select "Browse/Connect to this printer". I receive the message that it will "The server does not have the correct print driver installed" I Googled this problem, and a someone had this exact problem and posted it in a forum. Someone responded with a solution, but neither the original poster nor I understand what to do to solve the problem. Maybe someone else can figure out what is being said. http://forums.techarena.in/vista-print-fax/1207790.htm The printer is hooked up to a computer with Windows Vista. The other computer on the network has XP. I went to the website for my printer and attemtped to download different XP drivers on both computers (except the , but nothing worked. When I attempted to install the plug and play driver, the installation says it can not find the printer (but as I mentioned earlier, Windows is able to locate the printer). http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...5&swEnvOID=228 |
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