Canon Printer Sharing between XP 32 and Vista 64
Posted by admin on Jul 7th, 2006
I have not seen this specific case described.My printer is a Canon Pixma MP780.I have several XP Pro 32 bit systems, and one Vista Ultimate 64.File sharing works between any two machines, so no permission problems.The printer works locally on any machine, using the latest Canon drivers.Vista can not install the printer if it is on XP, saying no suitable drivers available. XP can not install the printer if it is on Vista, saying no suitable drivers available.I am getting tired of carrying this printer between systems it is not a portable...The Canon Vista driver package does not include printer .inf files; I think it is built in to Vista.The Canon XP driver package does not satisfy the No appplicable Driver on either XP or Vista.I do not have a partition available to install Vista 86 to grab drivers from there...I need more suggestions...Thanks!Robert
Jul 11th, 2006 at 05:54 am
One more test point. I do have Vista 32 installed as a Vmware Image. This machine was able to connect to my XP Pro 32 computer (where the printer is today) and install drivers. So in theory I have some version of 32 bit drivers on this Vista machine.What do I need to copy from here or anywhere to my real Vista 64 machine to enable it to use the printer on XP Pro 32?Eventually, I want the printer to live on the Vista 64 machine. Question then would be how do I keep XP Pro happy?Thanks!Robert
Jul 12th, 2006 at 02:12 pm
take the vista drivers off of the vista computer and place them in the drivers folder on ur xp computer for the printershared printers normally have a folder where all the drivers available are stored.bill"Robert"
Jul 13th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
I had exactly the same problem with my Epson printer. It would print dierctly from either the XP Pro or the Vista Ultimate, but kept getting the driver problem no matter which I treid to network it from. I ended up connecting it to my XP machine and downloading new 64 bit drivers from the Epson website onto the Vista machine (even though it apparently already had drivers because it printed directly...) Anyway, it worked and now I can print from either computer without problems. Tammy "Robert" wrote:
Jul 14th, 2006 at 09:34 pm
Here is the official response I got from Canon: This is demonstratably false the printer works fine between 32 bit XP and 32 bit Vista. But it is Canon's position and they are sticking to it...And they are not likely to repackage their drivers to fix it. I will note I installed a 32 bit Vista system, installed the Canon printer, and copied the entire FileRepository directory to a spot on my 64 bit Vista system. Still no go the ntprinter.inf directory would not satisfy the x86 architecture.Robert