Printer Sharing in Vista

I have an Epson Photo R300 printer connected to a desktop running WinXP and
shared on the home network. I have a Vista Home Premium laptop on the home
network and want to use the shared printer. I have gone through the add
printer wizard, selected the Epson printer from the list of printers on the
network, and clicked to install the driver. At this point the wizard stops
responding, and the printer is not added to the Vista laptop.

Any suggestions?

The XP Epson driver may not work on Vista.

You can either install the Vista driver onto the XP machine (you have to
perform this from the Vista machine targeting the XP machine) or install the
printer on Vista as a local printer, creating a Local Port in the form
\\XPmachine\printersharename and use the R300 driver that ships with Vista.


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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"LaurenceCook" <LaurenceCook.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an Epson Photo R300 printer connected to a desktop running WinXP and
> shared on the home network. I have a Vista Home Premium laptop on the home
> network and want to use the shared printer. I have gone through the add
> printer wizard, selected the Epson printer from the list of printers on
> the
> network, and clicked to install the driver. At this point the wizard stops
> responding, and the printer is not added to the Vista laptop.
>
> Any suggestions?