Right, because you can't load a 32-bit driver on a 64-bit version of Windows. You must use the 64-bit version of the drivers. If there isn't one, you're SOL with that printer.
When sharing a printer (as in, the machine that actually has the printer), you can load both x86 and x64 drivers to ease sharing, but each machine that uses the printer (including the host) requires the drivers loaded on it to match the Windows architecture. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of FORC5 > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 8:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Mapping printer xp to w7 ? > > 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.
