I just bought a Dell Studio 1537 with Vista 32 for my wife as a gift and wanted to hook it up to share files (pictures and music) and an HP printer that are on our older Dell Desktop running XP Home before I give it to her. We have Roadrunner and a Belkin wireless G router. The desktop is connected via the Ethernet card and the laptop will be wireless. I am a bit of a novice at this so would appreciate any help in setting up both computers to share certain files and a printer
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Ok, first off, make sure that the desktop has service pack 3 for XP installed. If it's not installed, the laptop running _Vista may not be able to "see" the desktop across the network.
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I have roughly the same issue...
Vista-->XP works...
XP--->Vista does not.
XP SP3 and Ultimate x64 -
One customer at a time, please.
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yep, I checked and do in fact have SP 3 installed on the desktop with XP
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First things first, share the printer under XP
Quoted from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/honeycutt_july2.mspx
That's it. It should show up as a printer when you go to print. -
Thank you...but can I ask you something? Did you actually read what I posted? The Vista laptop sees the printer and wants to install the printer but it states that the HOST MACHINE HAS A WRONG DRIVER AND WON"T INSTALL THE PRINTER!!!
Should I use a bigger font next time? -
Networking Desktop and Laptop XP & Vista 32??
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