Still Cannot Add Network Printer - Access Denied

I have three computers I my Office connected with the small network. Earlier two of them were running on XP and one on XP Media Center. I have two printers installed on the network and all three PCs were able to access it comfortably. Now I have upgraded my XP Media Center to Windows Vista. And since then started problem with printers. I have all systems on the same Network and Workgroup but still Vista is not able to access the any of the network printer.

As per troubleshooting I set them all on static IPs connected to a Linksys WRT54G Router. My laptop is connected via an Intel 2200 Wi-Fi Adapter. All three computers have the same User name and same password. But still when I try to add printers on Vista using Add Printer Wizard, it is able to see the printers but when try to add them; it ends up with an error message saying “Access Denied.” I tried out several other methods like browsing to the computer and right click on the shared printers and chose connect. Still Access Denied.

Now I have nothing left to try. Hope somebody here can tell me where is the problem and how can I make my Vista access the printers. Thanks for all your helps.

Hello Izhaar, you are not along with that problem buddy, count me in too. Infact while searching help for this problem on web i found 100s of people reporting the same Access Denied errors with Windows Vista but there is no solution yet. So one thing is for sure that this is apparently a widespread problem. In my case, today i am going to try hanging the printer off a Vista box and sharing it and see if I can get to it from another Vista box. Will update here whatever the result is.

Hey guys, here is the update. Seems like it works. As i said i hung the printer off a Vista box and was able to assign it as a network printer on another Vista box, no problem. I'm running XP Home on the PC that's sharing the printer. Don't know if Professional or MCE would make a difference.

See if you are able to get any success by doing so.

Hey Arzhela, even i am trying to figure out this problem since a week now but nothing seems to be working. I found only one person, just you, who says he fixed the problem. But i am not able to understand what you have did exactly.
Could you please explain what precisely is a Vista Box? Thanks for the help.

I am using Vista Beta2 as well. On my system File sharing with all other computers on the network works great but dont know why still I cannot find a way to share the XP Home printer with VISTA. Any working solution for the same?

Can anyone tell me why there are no MVPs weighing here today with either a solution or an explanation? Hope any MVP confirms me if it is not fixed in the shipping version of Vista I will not upgrade my laptop and I will never upgrade the desktop these are connected to because I don't use it enough to justify it.