WOW that's all I can say...it works....and the problem is XP Home vs.
Pro...I would never have thought of creating a local printer and using the
UNC path for the port....how incredible ingenious...Microsoft could not
survive without people like the author below figuring out how to make their
software work in spite of M$ best efforts...
--MRH

"sadsac" <sadsac.2hcnvl@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread! I found this thread
> after a google search, and based on the information here I've finally
> been able to resolve this issue after many many months of running Vista
> with no network print capability.
>
> I had the same problem as everyone else;
>
> A XP Home PC has a printer attached that all other computers running XP
> or linux are able to access. While Vista PCs that attempt to connect to
> this printer get the 'access denied' error, even though file sharing
> otherwise works.
>
> So I did what is suggested in this thread. I added the printer driver
> on the Vista PC, using control panel/printers/add printer/local
> printer. Vista had the driver for the printer in its table of
> selectable printer drivers. I chose LPT1 as the local port even though
> the PC in question doesn't even have LPT1 active in the BIOS.
>
> Now, after installing the driver, you DON'T just go back to the 'add
> printer wizard' and try to add a network printer again - you'll get the
> same 'access denied' error.
>
> What you do is select (right click) the newly installed printer, choose
> properties, ports, add port. Then manually add a new Local Port with:
>
> \\computer_name\shared_printer_name
>
> as the port name. In my case, the port name for the printer on my XP
> Home PC is \\danscomputer\hpdeskje
>
> Make sure you select this newly created port as the active port for the
> printer.
>
> Then I printed some pages, and it worked!
>
> Thanks again to all the contributors to this thread!
>
>
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