I just bought a laptop that is running Windows Vista. I wanted to print to my HP LaserJet 4L connected to my desktop running Windows XP. Problem: I kept getting an Access Denied error. Keep reading to find out how I was able to work around this.
I ended up finding several tutorials that had different approaches and by combining these, I figured out how to do this.
Steps:
- On Vista: open up Control Panel -> Printers
- Click Add a printer
- Click Add a local printer
- Select Create a new port - Type Local port
- Clicking Next will prompt you to enter a name - use the network path to the printer on your network.
For instance, I used \\desktopXP\HPLJ4L (my computer name is desktopXP and my printer is shared as HPLJ4L) - Click Next and select the driver from the list
- Click Next and customize the name or use the default - it’s up to you
- Click Next to install the printer
- You may print a test page to test the connection.
- Click finish to be done.
If this helped you then point other people to this page.
I just bought gateway laptop and wanted to hook my samsung ML-1010 laser printer with it. Everything worked like a char. thank for the little tutorial Tim.
Left by Best PHP Books on November 22nd, 2007