Connecting to printer

[jonx]

Hi,

Any advice would be appreciated; I have a laptop running Windows 7, which I want to connect to a PC running Windows XP to access the printer, the laptop can see the printer but when I connect I get the following message
‘Windows cannot connect to the printer. Access is denied’.

I have the printer shared out on the PC, just for information the laptop can see shared files and folders on the PC, without any problems.

Regards,

 

[DocBrown]

Welcome jonx

Please give us more info your equipment. Make & model of printer, etc. How is it connected to XP computer ? Parallel or USB ? XP 32bit or 64bit ? Laptop 32bit or 64bit Win7 ?

 

[CarlTR6]

Doc, I am interested in how you resolve this problem. I had this identical problem and I did solve; but I am sure my method was not the most expeditious.

 

[CommonTater]

Hi,

Any advice would be appreciated; I have a laptop running Windows 7, which I want to connect to a PC running Windows XP to access the printer, the laptop can see the printer but when I connect I get the following message
‘Windows cannot connect to the printer. Access is denied’.

I have the printer shared out on the PC, just for information the laptop can see shared files and folders on the PC, without any problems.

Regards,

Did you go throgh the "add printer" sequence in control panel -> printers?

It should share the printer but there's a small protocal driver that has to be dowloaded to the laptop...