Talk of the WinXP printer woes reminded me of a problem I had to fix
recently. We have a printer attached to a WindowsXP box but we wanted to
access it from a new Win7 box.

Try as I might I could not get it to work until I found a website which
explained that I needed to plug the printer directly into the Win7 box,
install the drivers, and then I could unplug it and configure it as a
networked printer.

Simple but I was cursing a lot until I figured it out so I hope this saves
someone the irritation.

Paul DS.

On Dec 4, 1:14*pm, "Paul D Smith" wrote:
Talk of the WinXP printer woes reminded me of a problem I had to fix
recently. *We have a printer attached to a WindowsXP box but we wanted to
access it from a new Win7 box.

Try as I might I could not get it to work until I found a website which
explained that I needed to plug the printer directly into the Win7 box,
install the drivers, and then I could unplug it and configure it as a
networked printer.

Simple but I was cursing a lot until I figured it out so I hope this saves
someone the irritation.

Paul DS.

There's no need to plug the printer in to the Win7 machine. A simple
google search leads to:



assume the computers are call XPMACHINE and W7MACHINE.

1) Ensure Printer on XP machine is shared - assume it's called
SHAREDPRINTER.

2) On the Network Browsing on your Windows 7 machine ensure you can
"See" the Printer share.

Now on the Windows 7 machine do the following (doesn't matter if it's
X-86 or x-64).

3) Control Panel== add LOCAL (Yes LOCAL) printer. I know it's on a
Network but hold your horses -- what we are actually doing is
"Poodlefaking" the Windows 7 machine into thinking it's running the
printer.

4) Create NEW port==Local port

5) Portname is \\XPMACHINE\SHAREDPRINTER

6) Now Windows 7 will load a driver and you'll be able to print on the
XP machine.

Simple

MBQ

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at B&Q writes
On Dec 4, 1:14*pm, "Paul D Smith" wrote:
Talk of the WinXP printer woes reminded me of a problem I had to fix
recently. *We have a printer attached to a WindowsXP box but we wanted to
access it from a new Win7 box.

Try as I might I could not get it to work until I found a website which
explained that I needed to plug the printer directly into the Win7 box,
install the drivers, and then I could unplug it and configure it as a
networked printer.

Simple but I was cursing a lot until I figured it out so I hope this saves
someone the irritation.

Paul DS.

There's no need to plug the printer in to the Win7 machine. A simple
google search leads to:



assume the computers are call XPMACHINE and W7MACHINE.

1) Ensure Printer on XP machine is shared - assume it's called
SHAREDPRINTER.

2) On the Network Browsing on your Windows 7 machine ensure you can
"See" the Printer share.

Now on the Windows 7 machine do the following (doesn't matter if it's
X-86 or x-64).

3) Control Panel== add LOCAL (Yes LOCAL) printer. I know it's on a
Network but hold your horses -- what we are actually doing is
"Poodlefaking" the Windows 7 machine into thinking it's running the
printer.

4) Create NEW port==Local port

5) Portname is \\XPMACHINE\SHAREDPRINTER

6) Now Windows 7 will load a driver and you'll be able to print on the
XP machine.

Simple


And, of course, if you use an elderly printer, you may have to update
the list of printers.

Then, if it's like my Xerox that works on HP drivers, you see an
enormous list where you have to remember that it's alphabetical so that
Laserjet IIP comes after Laserjet III and they are both a long way after
Laserjet 1000.
--
Bill