Windows Vista laptop can't connect to network printer on hom
Posted by admin on Dec 25th, 2006
I've brought my work laptop (running Windows Vista Ultimate) home and connected it to my home network. I can connect to file shares on the other computers on the home network, but I'm unable to connect to any shared printers. When I attempt to connect, I get the following message:Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000003).I have tried connecting to shared printers on two different computers (one running Windows Vista Ultimate, the other running Windows XP Professional), with identical results.The other computers on my home network have no difficulty sharing printers with each other. It's just my work laptop that has this problem.Could this have something to do with the laptop being joined to a domain? (My home network is a workgroup, not a domain.) I certainly don't want to unjoin the domain every time I bring it home, and rejoin when I go back to the office.
Dec 30th, 2006 at 09:55 am
If the print driver is included in Vista. Install a local printer adding a Local Port \\XPMACHINENAME\PRINTSHARENAME and use the Vista driver.error 3 is path not found Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowtoThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights."johnels"
Jan 3rd, 2007 at 01:41 am
Alan ... Installing the shared printer (attached to a Win 98 machine) as a local printer as you suggest below works ... The printer shows as "Ready" and I can print to it vey well until I turn off the Vista pc. Each time I turn the computer back on, the printer is "offline" and there appears to be nothing that I can do to get it "online" and "ready". If I delete the printer and reinstall it again as a local printer, it will again work just fine. But it seems that reinstalling the printer each time I turn the computer on shouldn't be the way to operate.Any suggestions on getting the shared printer to work without reinstalling it as a local printer every time I log on?Thanks."Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote:
Jan 4th, 2007 at 11:21 am
I have same problems. I use Windows Vista Ultimate and Lexmark Z25 on my other XP based PC."johnels" wrote:
Jan 8th, 2007 at 06:53 pm
I do not see a Vista driver for this model. Contact Lexmark and find out if they will even create on for this OS.lexmark.com/lexmark/sequentialem/home/0,6959,204816596_920309141_0_en,00.html Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowtoThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights."Tadej"
Jan 10th, 2007 at 03:36 am
I haven't even tried networking yet it won't even print directly from the laptop to my Lexmark Z25 when set as the Vista default printer and connected to the USB port on the laptop. It's totally outrageous that Vista cannot simply use XP drivers. It should be backwards compatible. Things should become more, not less functional with a new OS! It would be so easy for Microsoft to write an XP driver emulator but they won't. There isn't even a generic driver available that might allow you to approximate most of the printer's functions successfully. Even Windoze 95 had that capability. Lexmark do not seem to have a Vista driver on their website, which is full of doublespeak crowing about the printers they DO support with vista drivers. And why would they? Lexmark won't provide it because they want you to buy a new one and MS won't provide it because they're too lazy and foist as much responsibility as possible off onto third parties whenever they can (which is why we now have to download our own backups for installed OEM software).Greg "Tadej"