Document- and printer sharing between XP and W7 is a no-go. It can probably be
done, but only by inside knowledge from M$. Who's first? :)
In your shoes, look for physical ports located on the back of the printer. If there's both Parallel and USB ports, two different cables might work with two different
puters. Done this many times myself, and no hickups so far.
If this doesn't work, maybe you should look for some sort of PnP print server
that is *confirmed* to work with both XP and W7-64.
Before connecting a printer to WAN, pls remember that a more than 10 years old vulnerability that makes it possible to gain access to a LAN from WAN through the printer,
is still wide open and unpatched.
Bobby Heid wrote:
Have you set up printer sharing? On the W7 box, go to Start|Help and
Support and enter share printer. That should get you going.
Thanks,
Bobby
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of FORC5
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [H] Mapping printer xp to w7 ?
Friend, customer running a new puter with w7 home premium 64bit, her printer
( canon xx500) works fine.
Tried to map her laptop to print, can not make it go. I assume I need to add
the X86 drivers to the w7 install but w7 will not let me. DL'ed directly
from Canon.
FWIW the printer on the w7 box just was recognized and worked on first boot
but when it asks me for additional drivers it just will not take them.
AT a loss at the moment. As a work around put a folder on the laptop to copy
docs to and a shortcut on the w7 box she can print so at the moment no big
deal but I really HATE not being able to make it go. I wonder to myself if a
newer printer might work. Worked fine when she was running xp.
I have mapped many a printer. My w7 box has no problem printing thru my XP
box. ( opposite to her situation)
fp
thanks
Happy *V* Day
