Sharing printer on 2000 machine

[agoeddeke]

Hi all,

I have a problem at home. No, not that kind of problem - I have a problem sharing a printer.

I have an old windows 2000 machine that I want to use as a print server for my HP 720 deskjet printer. I have shared the printer and everything appears good on the 2000 side.

Now I want to load this shared printer on my Windows Vista machine. Problem is I can't see it or access anything from the Windows Vista side.

I have a really simple home networking setup - both machines belong to same workgroup. I don't have a bunch of users or passwords. I have McAfee security suite running on both machines.

Any ideas on what to check?

thanks,
ANdy

 

[Lemon13]

can you ping from vista to 2000 and vice versa?

disable mcafee on the 2000 pc and see if that helps (you might need to add a rule here)

check the ip configuration by opening a command prompt (start-run-cmd enter)
type ipconfig /all and post the results here (from both pcs)


M. Knorr

MCSE, MCTS, MCSA, CCNA

 

[linney]

See the paragraph "Accessing a Shared Folder or Printer with Windows Vista"

File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

Windows Vista: Networking

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/networking.mspx

 

[agoeddeke]

Thanks all, I got it figured out. After disabling McAfee on both computers it worked. So I did a quick Google search and figured out how to allow Windows File/Print sharing through the McAfee firewall.

All is good. The Win 2000 machine is slow as hell, but at least it works!

Andy