S.A.M.

Hi, I recently ran into this problem at school, and I thought I’d share it here so hopefully it might help someone in the future.

I recently bought a PC, and was setting it up to work in my school network.  All was well until I tried to connect to my printer.  My printer is connected to another computer, running Windows XP Pro.  Everytime I tried connecting, it would tell me i cannot and try again.  It turns out, that since the printer is connected to an XP computer, it will try installing the xp driver on my computer, and my computer will reject it (I run Vista Ultimate).  These are the steps to fix this problem.

1. Download/Install the latest Vista drivers for your printer
2. go to add new printer
3. Select Local Printer (not network printer)
4. Select create new port
5. For the name of the port, put the path of the printer (eg. \\1gymkilkiskil\hp 1012)
6. When it asks to look for the drivers, choose have disks, then point to the location where you installed the drivers
7. Voila!  you are now set up to print over your network.