Rob:

No one has responded but it appears that unless you have a brand new printer
that is Vista certified, you cannot network print to a printer on a XP Home
or XP Pro network.

THIS SUCKS! MS$ should be ashamed of putting out Vista and not allowing it
to network print to a XP networked printer.

--
Lee


"Rob" wrote:

> I am at my wits end!!
> I cannot print from my 4 day old Laptop loaded with Vista Home Premium to
> the printer attached to my XP SP2 Machine. I could print from my previous XP
> SP2 laptop without problems. On both machines, all firewalls are off, all
> virus programs are off, all printers are shared, all files are shared, both
> computers are in the same workgroup, network discovery on, KB922120 is
> installed on the XP machine, TCP/IPv4 WINS NetBios is enabled over TCP/IP,
> network is private etc.......
> What is interesting is that I successfully mapped drives on both PC's and
> can fully share files in both directions between both computers. So for now
> I am printing Vista files that I can see from my XP.
> BUT, I can not browse (in explorer) the XP Computer network from the Vista
> machine (Permission error, contact administrator - Myself?)
> I have also tried to enter \\computername\printername\ which gives me (Error
> 0x0000000D) It looks like I am not alone in the issues in printing from
> Vista to XP but I haven't seen anyone who has had my problem while being able
> to actaully see files. Anyone out there know the fix before I return this PC
> to BestBuy and get the one with XP media Centre Edition for $100 less?