what is the process of sharing a printer in windows vista

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by barononeefdip, Oct 16, 2009.

  1. barononeefdip

    barononeefdip Specialist

    i thought the process was going to be as short and simple as you would do in xp i don't know what the problem is

    what i did was simply go to the control panel, selected printers, and highlighted the desired printer and right clicked, chose the sharing option and checked the option share this printer and went to another computer to access the printer went to printers in control panel and selected printers, then add printer. selected network printer the browse printer the nothing came up
     
  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    The computers must be in the same group.
    XP, by default uses MSHOME while Vista, by default uses WORKGROUP. You need to change the workgroup names so they match.
     
  3. barononeefdip

    barononeefdip Specialist

    how do i do that and how do i find outwhich group names each machine has

    i hate vist but my father refuses to switch to something more efficient
     
  4. usafveteran

    usafveteran MajorGeek

  5. barononeefdip

    barononeefdip Specialist

    both machines have vista so i don't think a guide to sharing between vista and xp won't help completely but its worth a try
     
  6. Just Playin

    Just Playin MajorGeek


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