One more thing, that reminds me of all the problems that I encountered when I
upgraded my OS to XP and nothing worked!! I guess the plan at MS is put the
product to the market and let the consumers be the BETA testers.


"Rob" wrote:

> Thanks Lee,
> That's kinda what I was thinking, which is brutal.
> Are you 100% sure of that? If that is the case, I at the very least feel
> better knowing that I am not the idiot who can't figure it out. I will
> assume that MS will EVENTUALLY put out a patch. This isn't acceptable, the
> OS should be backwards compatible. If you surf the MS site for solutions,
> most of what you find is "upgrade XP to Vista", planned obsolesence.....
> We should place bets on how long it will take MS to fix it...
>
>
> "Lee Clayton" wrote:
>
> > 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?