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" <Tadej@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B2456B69-563D-4160-ABC2-F3E4B6F4F908@microsoft.com...
>I have same problems. I use Windows Vista Ultimate and Lexmark Z25 on my
> other XP based PC.
>
> "johnels" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>