I am finding it impossible to connect a Vista laptop to a Lexmark Z600 series printer on an XP desktop. File and printer sharing are enabled on both machines, the Windows firewalls allow printer sharing, I have installed a Vista printer driver on the Vista machine and can see the XP machine and the Lexmark printer from the Vista machine. Importantly, I have used the "add printer" wizard on the Vista to use a local port \\XP-MACHINE\Lexmark where XP-MACHINE is the XP computer name and Lexmark is the shared printer name. I get no error messages except when trying to print something when I then am told that there are problems communicating with the printer. Any ideas?

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Hi Mike Try control panel/programs/turn windows features on or off/uncheck Remote Differential Compression Regards David

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I tried that and lost both my WiFi connections!

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Did you get your connections back again by re-checking the option?


On Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 3:06 pm, Charlie Hadden wrote:
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>I tried that and lost both my WiFi connections!

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Yes I did and Then I checked the usage of this at M.S. like I should have done at first only to find out how incredibly stupid of a move it was. By removing it, it totally removes the hash page. I' not going to say it wouldn't work in some instances, but for the most part where we are using more and more WiFi and WLAN features in everyday life this is a def. no no to turn off.

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