Shared printers between XP Pro and XP Home

9 Aug 2006 12:16 PM

jeffuk123

Hi

I constantly endure problems sharing a printer to an XP Home PC from an XP
Professional, what am I doing incorrectly or is this a common issue?

Also, can a printer be shared from XP home to XP Prof?

Kind regards,
Jeff

9 Aug 2006 1:14 PM

Malke

jeffuk123 wrote:

> Hi
>
> I constantly endure problems sharing a printer to an XP Home PC from an XP
> Professional, what am I doing incorrectly or is this a common issue?
>
> Also, can a printer be shared from XP home to XP Prof?

There is no problem sharing a printer between computers running any of
Microsoft's operating systems starting with Win95 as long as the printer
drivers are available for that operating system. The same printer drivers
will be used for XP Home and XP Pro.

Since you haven't told us anything about your printer, how it is connected,
or what the problems are, no one can give you focused help. Here is a link
that explains what details need to be included in your next newsgroup post
in order for us to help you:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

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9 Aug 2006 5:42 PM

jeffuk123

The printer is installed locally and shared out. I have come across this
problem on numerous occasions sharing printers between professional and home
edition whether on a domain or workgroup. Even though the printers are modern
day deskjets or laserjets. I have shared printers between O/S's hundreds of
times, so why does this simple connection issue between these 2 XP operating
systems always occur?

I have also seen many forums where others had the same problems but no
answers!!!

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"Malke" wrote:

> jeffuk123 wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I constantly endure problems sharing a printer to an XP Home PC from an XP
> > Professional, what am I doing incorrectly or is this a common issue?
> >
> > Also, can a printer be shared from XP home to XP Prof?
>
> There is no problem sharing a printer between computers running any of
> Microsoft's operating systems starting with Win95 as long as the printer
> drivers are available for that operating system. The same printer drivers
> will be used for XP Home and XP Pro.
>
> Since you haven't told us anything about your printer, how it is connected,
> or what the problems are, no one can give you focused help. Here is a link
> that explains what details need to be included in your next newsgroup post
> in order for us to help you:
>
> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
> --
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic"
>

9 Aug 2006 5:52 PM

Malke

jeffuk123 wrote:

> The printer is installed locally and shared out. I have come across this
> problem on numerous occasions sharing printers between professional and
> home edition whether on a domain or workgroup. Even though the printers
> are modern day deskjets or laserjets. I have shared printers between O/S's
> hundreds of times, so why does this simple connection issue between these
> 2 XP operating systems always occur?
>
> I have also seen many forums where others had the same problems but no
> answers!!!

Sorry, that hasn't been my experience at all - not in my own home network of
mixed operating systems, not at any of my clients' in the many years I've
been in business, and not at any of the schools where we've set up laptop
programs with hundreds of laptops running XP Home alongside of XP Pro
machines.

But obviously you've made up your mind that the problem somehow lies with XP
Pro and XP Home and don't want to provide any details about a specific
network, so I won't attempt to tell you differently.

Good luck and I hope you solve your problem.

*plonk*

Malke

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Elephant Boy Computers
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