vista printer help!!!

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hotfootball2000
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vista printer help!!!

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we are connected to a linksys wireless router, the printer is on a windows sp2 wired connection hp, i have an xp wireless laptop and 2 vista laptops.
Problem: My xp and one of the vistas print, but the sony vaio vista wont even see the hp let alone the printer. But it does see the other vista.
Thx in advance
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Re: vista printer help!!!

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hotfootball2000 wrote:we are connected to a linksys wireless router, the printer is on a windows sp2 wired connection hp, i have an xp wireless laptop and 2 vista laptops.
Problem: My xp and one of the vistas print, but the sony vaio vista wont even see the hp let alone the printer. But it does see the other vista.
Thx in advance
Getting XP and Vista to work together on a network for printing is the HARDEST damn thing in the world. I wound up upgrading all my PC's to Vista after 4 days of trying to get them to work together.

And I have 2 years PC repair training and network expertise.

Good luck.
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umm not really i have 2 xp networked on my moms vista, they all share files and all can use any printer on any computer.

I am on the phone with right now cause we go to school together and are friends (yay me I have a friend) we might have figured it out

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nic8082242 wrote:umm not really i have 2 xp networked on my moms vista, they all share files and all can use any printer on any computer.

I am on the phone with right now cause we go to school together and are friends (yay me I have a friend) we might have figured it out

And only 14
yay for you....... :roll:

Do a search on xp and Vista printer networking on google and see if there are problems :)
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thanks

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ok guys it was norton 360s firewall, i disabled it, went to network, waited, it found "HP", turned the firewall back on and it still works.
thanks for the help guys!!
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hotfootball2000
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?

Post by hotfootball2000 »

not really
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