re: unable to connect to shared printer Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 2:21 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Did you reinstall the same printer driver package and software package (s) on the laptop as you have on the desktop? If one machine has a different driver version, that usually is the cause of the error. Example.. One machine is running a driver from Microsoft (update) and the other is running a driver from the printer manufacturer. Otherwise, you can tell your laptop to get the driver from the desktop machine if you go through the acquire driver process. (that isn't always done automatically) Just a guess without more information on what has or hasn't been installed on each machine... Written in response to: unable to connect to shared printer (grm: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 1:50 pm) Responses to this message: re: unable to connect to shared printer (grm: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 8:25 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] unable to connect to shared printer (grm: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 1:50 pm) re: unable to connect to shared printer (C K: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 2:21 pm) re: unable to connect to shared printer (grm: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 8:25 pm) re: unable to connect to shared printer (C K: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 9:16 am) re: unable to connect to shared printer (grm: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 12:54 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum