How can I get the Vista machine to consistently recognize the network printer at startup like its two XP brothers always do? I can always add the network printer to the Vista machine after startup by going through the "add a printer" dialog. When the machine reboots the "new" printer most often shows up as "offline". I've just replaced the network router with no effect on this (no better, no worse).
View 4 RepliesWhen I try to scan to email on my all in one printer. The printer does not recognize windows mail as a valid program. This all in one worked fine on XP
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a Lexmark Optra R laser printer that I bought in 1996! But it works great and will outlast anything you can buy today. When I got my new computer with Vista I found I couldn't install it. The driver seems to be available, but the computer just doesn't recognize the printer.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI?m trying to install a network printer on a Vista machine. Vista is able to locate the printer on the network but when I select it for installation, for some time, Vista tries to connect and then pops up this message: "Failed Connecting to Printer - Access Denied" And then another window pops up with this message: "Spooler Subsystem Application stopped woring and has been closed." In fact the spooler service always stops, so I have to restart it on the services windows, within Administrative Tools of the Control Panel. The machine is new and has been installed yesterday. Everything else works fine. The printer I am trying to install is on a Windows XP Professional machine within the same network (naturally).
View 9 Replies View RelatedI cannot set the default printer in Vista Business with SP1. I am connected to a domain trying to set a network printer hosted from a server as the default printer. I have seen a dozen or more questions similiar to this in this group as well as on other forums and found no answer. I see a MS-MVP come on and tell people to remove local printers such as the XPS and adobe printers. This is a ridiculous solution. Sure it may allow you to connect to a network printer but you have removed printers that you are going to need to use again. Unacceptable.
So far the only other solution that does not include deleting all the local printers off of the machine is to make sure you have write permissions to the default printer registry key. I have checked this and I do have write permissions(Full Control). SO WHAT NEXT? IS MICROSOFT EVER GOING TO COME OUT WITH ANOTHER FIX FOR THIS?
I have recently purchased a laptop with Vista Home Premium, only to discover that it wouldn't recognize my desktop machine on the network. The desktop is Windows Media Center Edition (XP Pro). I've installed the Topical Link-Layer Discovery update on the XP machine, and about once out of every three visits to the "Network" through Explorer, my desktop will show up, but trying to access it (ever) will give an error that essentially says "Sorry, chump, I asked DNS about that PC, but there's no record of it existing." (Except, with a Brooklyn accent.)
I'm fairly tech-savvy, so I've done my googling. I've tried enabling the sharing options on the Vista machine, setting up accounts with the same user ID & password on both machines - the standard response to this problem. Unfortuneately, none of these things have solved this issue. I've got software (source code - I'm a programmer) and media on my desktop that I really need to get to from my laptop.
i recently bought a pci network card, specifically a a Intel PWLA8391GT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter. after the hardware install, i booted up, and to my dismay, vista doesnt recognize that ive installed a new network card. im using the card to hook up my xbox 360, so that i can access xbox live through the university's network. i have the xbox hooked up to the pci network card via crossover cable, and when i turn the xbox on, i get green leds on the back.
View 8 Replies View RelatedEverything is working fine (so far) except that it does not recognize integrated Ethernet adapter at all. On advise of support guys did driver reinstall several time including while in Safe Mode. Even restored factory settings i.e. reinstalled OS. If I run "pnputil -e" then the adapter package is listed but the adapter just does not show up in Device Manager.
Already verified that it is enabled in BIOS. Netgear USB adapter worked just fine after installing vista driver for it. Thinking of putting in a PCI card but that will occupy one slot. Only 3 PCI slots are available - standard, Express 1 and Express 16.
my startups have recently slowed down. I have disabled stuff from the startup selection, and still had no luck. I think the problem lies with the network connection. It seems to be taking a while before it connects to my router. not sure why this started happening usually used to be alot quicker.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi have windows vista ultimate x64 since i first got my computer, never formatted it afterwards and its the same install since first. I have a problem that started some time a go (i think it started in md autumn last year) after installing NIS 2010 (i suppose this is when it really started). And if you ask me, no, it's not original. Or it may have started after an update...this is the problem cuz i can't pinpoint accurately when it first appeared. So here's the problem: my windows loads normally i type in the password to my account, and then i get the "X" icon on the Networks (it appears like this, the X doesnt appear after "it loads") i have to wait like 30 seconds and i'm not kidding, when my computer normally fully loads vista in 12 seconds or so (with all the startup progrms). AND HERE COMES THE S@#T biscuit: almost anything windows-related operations don't work until that stupid icon turns to normal (without the X)... like User Account control (UAC appears after the icon turns to normal, eventually), On-screen keyboard i found out that it doesn't appear until that stupid X disappears (i had probs with my keyboard).
There's another curious thing: if i wait a few seconds at the log in screen and then decide to log in, everything loads normally (as if that stupid X has a fixed timer when it disappears). Internet works fine, no network problems... except one minor, windows-related problem: i can't click the damn icon or right click it doesn't do jack !@@# as if the icon is frozen... if i hover my mouse over it nothing appears (the list of connected networks would normally appear if you hover the mouse pointer). I have Hamachi and Tunngle installed (they are both progrms which create virtual networks,i removed tunngle a few weeks ago though), but i had them before this problem first appeared and worked fine. Another thing i need to mention is i started to get some retarded "device is not working" like 4 of them under network adapters something called Windows 6to4 Adapter #4, #5 #6, but i solved it (unninstalled them, then reinstall ONE of it).
I have Windows Vista with SP1 installed at home. I am trying to access a shared printer on a Windows XP SP2 system. Administrator access seems to work for the printer, but User rights do not seem to work. I have set the network printer permissions to allow Everyone, Users, and event Guests, but I am still having problems with the Vista system being able to access the printer when running in User context.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy main computer that has the printer installed is vista 64bit. The other computers around the house are XP pro 32bit. I can see the printer but when I try to print it says it does not the driver. I go to install additional drivers but it won't let it happen. I have a canon MP780 AIO printer. Can anyone tell me what needs to be done? I have googled but not found my answer.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWe have a small network with 3 PCs and 1 printer with wired connections to a router. All of the PCs can see each other on the network. One of the PCs cannot see or print to the network printer, though the other two can. The printer is shown as installed, but PING shows 4 packets sent, 4 packets received - 'Host Unreachable'. Is there some file or driver that might be corrupted on the one PC causing this... ?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI want to make sure I buy the correct item. My desktop is connected to our wireless router via cable and our notebook is wireless. I want to buy a printer to attach, usb, to the desktop but that I can network to the notebook. Any specifics I need to ask for? Do I install the software in both computers? Would a usb wireless adapter for the desktop be the way to go?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have two ethernet hardwired network printers on my home net. Why do the IP adresses change and what can I do to to prevent this or at least find an easy way to fix it when it does. This is not an user freindly ergonomic situation MS.
View 6 Replies View RelatedPresently, Vista is the only system that can't find my printer on the network. All my other OS is Windows XP. Have a Linksys router with a Canon printer. Why can it not find my printer on the newtwork??
View 4 Replies View RelatedNo vista home premium x64 printer driver for Toshiba e-studio 150 copier/printer. Searched for hours. Other than copying files to a networked computer, isn't there some kind of workaround possible through networking so I can just shoot stuff directly to the printer? (Of course the normal networked printer routine won't work without a Vista 64 driver). Also tried Vmware virtual machine but it says the printer is trying to scan when it's not, probably because Vista won't stop trying to communicate with it. (ms virtual pc doesn't work on vista home premium x64).
Printer is too expensive to become a paperweight. user Russell found this workaround for another printer...Found this on google while working on this issue myself and came back to post what I got working. Setup the port as LPR, queue name print with byte counting on. Use the built in x64 2k3 driver for the Ricoh Aficio AP3800C PS. So far I have Color, Duplexing, Tray options working properly with this driver, but the finisher doesn't want to staple... better than it being a large paperweight though.
I have one XP, two Vista and one Mac computer on my home network. The Mac's a piece of cake but my kids' two Vistas are a nightmare for networking the family printer, which is on my XP computer. With suitable long evenings of tweaking permissions and pleading, their computers eventually see the printer, but refuse to "Add Printer" as they should. Firewalls are off, sharing enabled, permissions tweaked anew and newsgroups read, plus hours spent rebooting and praying. But, every time I try to add a shared printer on the XP computer, it sees the printer, then tells me I cannot add it unless I install the driver. I click on "Install Driver" and it hangs. Heaven forbid that it would even have the courtesy to say, no, I refuse to install any driver for your stinking printer. It just won't, and it won't apologise or explain.
So why don't I just download the driver and install it manually? Easy. Then, in my administrator account on my daughter's Vista computer, it sees it and - after installing SP1 - it finally says it's installed and it's the default printer. That only took six months! But wait. In my daughter's own account, the printer still doesn't exist and it won't install!.....................................
if anyone knows if setting up a network printer in Vista is profile specific. I know currently with XP, if you setup a network printer it only shows up for the user that is logged into the pc. To get around that currently, we setup a local print port and point it to the print server.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to connect to network printers in Vista without using Active Directory for mulitiple users?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI do an add printer on my wireless connected laptop. It finds the printer on my XP desktop but when I click OK it say it cannot connect, access denied. This works fine on my other desktop and I am stumped. The printer works fine directly connected to this VISTA laptop as does file sharing.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have 2 computers and one laptop in my home the main computer is xp, laptop is xp. the hp printer is attached to main computer. my daughters computer is vista. i can see all computers on the network and had no problem in adding the printer to my xp laptop, but cannot add the printer to the vista computer. i have norton on all computers and have removed it and still same problem. when adding the printer on the vista computer, i can see the printer but when i add it produces this error "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could not be completed (error 0x0000046a)"
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to print (Laptop with Vista) to the Network (XP machine) Plotter, I receive this message " Windows cannot connect to the printer. The printer driver is not compatible with a policy enabled on your computer that blocks NT 4.0 drivers". I realize this is an old plotter, however the driver installs and works fine in the XP enviroment. Is there any way I can remove this policy?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a All in one printer connected to a pc with USB plug.. I want to connect another computer for use with this All In One. And still be able to use it WITH ALL it features. regardless of witch computer I was on , while trying to print. would a print servers do the trick or get a ubs hub (pluged into the wall for power) be sufficient..
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have an HP Color LaserJet connected as a network printer and it functions perfectly. My problem is that if I look at the Vista network map, the printer is nowhere to be found. I have talked with a few support techs at HP and they say it should show right up. In fact, HP's support totally sucks lately! why it is not there. It is not in the addtional devices section either.
View 5 Replies View RelatedVista Home Premium too selective...I have a small LAN with a network printer and three XP Pro computers and one Vista Home Premium computer. All run through a WiFi/Ethernet access point, some hardwired and some via WiFi. This internal network uses assigned tcp/ip addresses (static ip's). The network is stable and everything has worked nicely for years, until now.The Vista and XP machines can access each other via Windows Explorer, so the LAN network is intact and working.
The problem:
1) The Vista machine stopped communicating with the network printer. After several printer re-installs, the Vista control panel printer function printed successful test pages, but no application will print.The test and setup utilities for the network printer, which gets direct access to the printer via the network, identify and can configure the printer, even as the applications report errors, such as "unable to initialize printer" or show a blank, empty page when viewed in print preview.
2) I cannot ping the printer in DOS, nor can I navigate to/access the printer via the browser with the Vista machine. The XP machines can both ping and access this printer (it has function, status and setup pages). However, the Vista machine will ping the XP machines, and ping and access/open the access point, and even the dsl modem.I have turned off the firewall, but it makes no difference.Since everything "used to work," I am at a loss.
I have vista home 32 bit on a laptop and a desktop I have two Kodax printers one on my desktop one on my wifes desktop. I have them both shared however I can not get my laptop to conect to either one I see the printers on the network but every time I tell them to add I get a message telling me I typed the name wrong I didn't type a name I chose a printer from the list. I allso have the same problem trying to connect my desktop to my wifes printer. I have spent hours on the phone with HP and they couldnot resolve the problem.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen browsing through shared folders and network computers Explorer can slow down when it is searching the local network for printers. This sounds like a great feature and may be useful for some but I would rather disable it to get maximum performance when browsing through folders.
1. Hit Alt to bring up the menubar if it is not already on the screen....
I originally posted this 6-24 on only the Vista Printer_fax_scan NG with no response. Multiposted now to broaden the range of people seeing the post. Really need assistance. TIA.
I have a laptop (new HP) with Vista Home Premium SP1 preinstalled, 3 GB RAM,250GB HDD, AMD Turion 64 processor. Using Zone Alarm free as firewall and AVG 8 free as antivirus. Know that firewall is not issue since have full access to printers (can ping the network connected printers) and all other networked computers without problem. I understand that AVG has had a printing issue in the past but I totally turned off AVG by uninstalling itand this did not clear the issue with printing.
Out of the box I have connected the new laptop to the following printers using the latest drivers available from the manufacturers or using Vista's built in if the drivers aren't available from manufacturer's web site.
The following are connected through the home network via wireless and work flawlessly with 3 laptops running XP Pro (2) and XP Home (1).HP 2200DN - B & W Laser (network with Cat5e cable through WAP/Switch) OKIDATA 5150 - Color laser (network with Cat5e cable through WAP/Switch)Epson 1280 (connected through a Sony XP computer share) Epson R260 (also connected through the Sony XP computer)
The last printer is a Canon BJC80 which is connected via a USB to Parallel printer cable (Belkin) which works great with no delay on any of the laptops running XP.
I try to share my printer on my network I get a error 0x00000709 make sure that you have typed the name correctly and that the printer is connected to the network. I can see the printer all looks good but I get this error.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWith much stumbling, I have been able to configure, via Control Panel, the printer settings on the WinXP desktop to print to the printer that is physically connected via USB cable to the Win7 desktop. When I File/Print and select the appropriate printer name from the dropdown list, the printing is fully successful. Attempting to apply the same steps with the Vista laptop fails. The printer was at one time installed and connected via USB to the laptop, and therefore an icon for it exists in Control Panel/Printers. I select the printer name, right click, properties, Ports, Add Port, Local Port.
When I got to this point on the WinXP computer, I had only to enter \XPS9000Canon Inkjet iP6700D as the port name, and all was good. But on the Vista laptop, I get an Local Port error window "Access is denied" Perhaps having three different operating systems adds complexity to networking a printer. when I go to Control Panel/Printers on the XP computer, the port name in properties is exactly as I specified above. A curious thing is that when I go to the Sharing tab, the spelling for the Share name is "CanoniP"