I am about at the end of my rope, and I hope someone can help: My HP
dv2500 laptop running Vista used to work fine connecting to my printer
over the local network via an XP-based main PC, which has a Kodak
Printer hooked to it. At some point in the last few months, the laptop
stopped being able to connect. I think this was around the time of
upgrading to SP1, but cannot be sure. In any case, I even went so far
as to rebuild my main PC and do a clean install of Vista on that
machine, in the hopes it might help. No joy. I can print from the
laptop if I connect the printer directly into the USB port on my laptop,
but cannot access the printer via the network anymore
Here are the details:
- Printer sharing is enabled on both the PC and the laptop
- When I go into control panel - add printer - select network printer,
the network printer appears in the pop-up box.
- Once I select the printer and click next, I get the following error:
"Windows cannot connect to the printer. Make sure that you have typed
the name correctly, and that the printer is connected to the network"
The printer works fine over the network on my wife's XP laptop, but
does not work on mine, nor my daughter's HP vista laptop. Interestingly
enough, the printing function worked fine for my daughter's laptop until
I borrowed it to test her print function and noticed that she did not
have SP1, and her virus program was out of date. I helpfully upgraded
both, and (I am not sure if this happened right away, or just a
coincidence) her printer function no longer works either. All three
laptops (2 Vistas and one XP) are running AVG Free 8.0 anti-virus. As
I said, the XP laptop works, so I do not think it is AVG. Both Vista
laptops print fine if hooked directly to the printer via USB.
I have searched the forum and tried several suggestions, including
trying to add as a local printer, but cannot figure this one out.
Thanks for any help you can provide. - Bob
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