thanks, pretty much did everything in that link, w7 will not accept the x86 drivers, pretty sure that is her bug. read about the lpt1 workaround and just did not want to go there ( for now) fp
At 06:49 AM 2/15/2010, Christopher Fisk Poked the stick with: >You are running into a driver version mismatch, even installing drivers >directly to the XP machine will not work because it is getting the printer >name differently than what the drivers tell you. > >Possible solutions: > >http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/share-files-and-printers-between-windows-7-and-xp/ > > >The other possible solution is to share the printer and connect to it as an >LPT port. > >Example: (one line command) > >net use LPT1: \\w7-machinename\printershare password /USER:domain\username >/savecred /persistent:yes > >Use that command on the windows XP machine and just use the mapped LPT port to >setup the printer. I know it works XP-XP, not sure on W7 yet though. > > -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Murphy was an optimist.
