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My wifes computer (Peggy-Pet Windows 7 32bit) has a Lexmark X5150 printer connected and installed to it. My Laptop (Pops-PC Vista 64 bit )

The printer is shared and prints on Peggy-Pet (cjrX5100EN)

Printer is installed with 64 bit driver Pops PC (cjsX5100EN)

Error on Pops-PC can not communicate with printer

When I add a printer / local printer I get Access is denied

This is driving me crazy

Peggy-pet sees Pops-PC and vise versa in the network (workgroup) both computers ping each other

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The windows user account in your wife’s pc is different from the one you use in your own pc?

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The windows user account in your wife’s pc is different from the one you use in your own pc?

Yes on hers it is peggy and mine it is pops

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That’s the reason for your problems, then. There may be other solutions, I must say I never tried it, but one easy way to handle it would be to create an account with the same username and password you use on your computer, on your wife’s computer. This should fix it.

A quick way to see if it works, or to get the permissions problem to go away, at least until you shutdown your pc, is to try to access your wife’s pc with windows explorer, or simply type \Peggy-Pet in the Windows 7 search box, just above the Windows Start button. You will be required to type a username and password: use your wife’s. You should be able to print, once you do this.

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Just a quick note to add the if you choose to Turn Off Password Protect Sharing, in Network and Sharing Center->Advanced Sharing Settings, you may be able to print without the need for authentication or the existence of an account with the same username and password you use on your pc, on the pc that’s sharing the printer.

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Just a quick note to add the if you choose to Turn Off Password Protect Sharing, in Network and Sharing Center->Advanced Sharing Settings, you may be able to print without the need for authentication or the existence of an account with the same username and password you use on your pc, on the pc that’s sharing the printer.

I added Peggy on my Vista and added Pops to Peggy. From Vista laptop I see the printer on Peggy-Pet but can’t connect to it, I get this error . . . Windows can not connect to the Printer. Operation can not be completed (error 0X0000000d)

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Sharing was and is not password protected

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Error on Pops-PC can not communicate with printer

When I add a printer / local printer I get Access is denied

Try add a printer / network printer . The local printer option expects the printer to be connected directly to your Vista computer. The network printer option is to connect to a network printer that has its own IP address, or one that is directly connected to another computer on the network, such as your wife’s computer.

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See if any of this helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947236
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistaprinting/thread/d02718d8-cf5d-45de-9206-46714a549ee0/

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See if any of this helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947236
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistaprinting/thread/d02718d8-cf5d-45de-9206-46714a549ee0/

Well that didn’t go well, I had to restore Vista. So I am back to square one

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Sorry if it didn’t work out. Tweaking the registry can be risky.

Do you have file sharing enabled between the computers?

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Sorry if it didn’t work out. Tweaking the registry can be risky.

Do you have file sharing enabled between the computers?

yes the first thing I did

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And you can access shared folders on your wife’s computer?

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And you can access shared folders on your wife’s computer?

Oh yeah I can get into files from peggy-pet to vista and vise versa

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I think I going to make this blog my new home page cause I having so much fun with this printer. Anyway thanks for all the suggestions and I have had a good time trying them.

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I would suspect this is really one of the issues the registry tweaking was supposed to fix.

Sorry, don’t know what else to suggest .

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Hi, This is my first post here, so hopefully it all goes well.

In regards to your printing problem – I too had the same problem, 2 laptop pcs – one Win 7 the other a Vista Laptop on a wireless network, both located in different areas. The Win 7 laptop is directly connected to the printer and the Vista laptop PC although able to see the printer was unable to print to it over the wireless network – even after installing the printer as a network printer.
I have the printer shared on both computers.
To make it work was to give my Win 7 Laptop PC a static address (I used 10 instead of 1 at the end of the address, to allow for enough connections for any other devices you may have on the network). Restarted both computers, then, I reinstalled the printer as a network printer onto the Vista Laptop and since then the Vista laptop prints happily to the printer.

NB: I’m sure I found the information here on the Windows Lounge – sorry I thought I had printed it out so I could give the link, but can’t seem to find it at the moment.

Hope it helps.

PS: I know nothing about networks etc – just glad it worked for me!

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Hi, This is my first post here, so hopefully it all goes well.

In regards to your printing problem – I too had the same problem, 2 laptop pcs – one Win 7 the other a Vista Laptop on a wireless network, both located in different areas. The Win 7 laptop is directly connected to the printer and the Vista laptop PC although able to see the printer was unable to print to it over the wireless network – even after installing the printer as a network printer.
I have the printer shared on both computers.
To make it work was to give my Win 7 Laptop PC a static address (I used 10 instead of 1 at the end of the address, to allow for enough connections for any other devices you may have on the network). Restarted both computers, then, I reinstalled the printer as a network printer onto the Vista Laptop and since then the Vista laptop prints happily to the printer.

NB: I’m sure I found the information here on the Windows Lounge – sorry I thought I had printed it out so I could give the link, but can’t seem to find it at the moment.

Hope it helps.

PS: I know nothing about networks etc – just glad it worked for me!

Hi Debbie Thank you for your suggestion. Are you sure that is all you did to get the printer to work? All you did was change the IP address on the host computer? 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.10?

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Hi Debbie Thank you for your suggestion. Are you sure that is all you did to get the printer to work? All you did was change the IP address on the host computer? 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.10?

Hi Jim,
Like you I had also made numerous attempts to get it working, since I can’t find the info I used I will try and list the steps I did and what both my computer settings are now.
Win7 pc is connected directly to the printer (my printer does not have network capability, hence my need to get it to work)
Both Win7 (64bit) and Vista (32) pcs are wireless connected to the network and I had to set their Workgroup names to the be the same name in my case “Workgroup”. The network is secure and each computer logs into it as required.
On the Win7 pc I set the “Share this printer” setting for this printer in the Printer properties and gave it a unique name.
In the Network and Sharing Center set both pcs to: Network Discovery, File Sharing and Printer Sharing etc. The Vista pc is set to private network while the Win7pc is set to Homegroup. (Don’t know if that makes any difference)
Made sure that both pcs in the Network Connections settings had the “Link-lay Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver” & “Link-lay Topology Discovery Responder” were set. (As you can see your wifes computer etc this is obviously already set.)
On the Win7 pc in Network Connections Propeties under Internet Protocol Ver 4 (TCP/IPv4) properties I set a static IP address: eg using your IP address above I set the following:

IP Address: 192.168.1.10
Sub-net mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway ID: 192.168.1.1
WINS & DNS Severs: 192.168.1.1

On the Vista pc added a new printer – “Network Printer” and selected the printer on the Win7 pc with the unique printer name I created earlier when I setup to share the printer. (So now I have two printers listed for the same printer – one for direct connections and the other to use when on the network.)

Please note that I can only print from the Vista pc when the Win7 pc is on.

Hope the above makes sense and is of some help.

Debbie

PS I found the following link that I did also use that may be of help for you: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Networking-home-computers-running-different-versions-of-Windows

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Hi Jim,
Like you I had also made numerous attempts to get it working, since I can’t find the info I used I will try and list the steps I did and what both my computer settings are now.
Win7 pc is connected directly to the printer (my printer does not have network capability, hence my need to get it to work)
Both Win7 (64bit) and Vista (32) pcs are wireless connected to the network and I had to set their Workgroup names to the be the same name in my case “Workgroup”. The network is secure and each computer logs into it as required.
On the Win7 pc I set the “Share this printer” setting for this printer in the Printer properties and gave it a unique name.
In the Network and Sharing Center set both pcs to: Network Discovery, File Sharing and Printer Sharing etc. The Vista pc is set to private network while the Win7pc is set to Homegroup. (Don’t know if that makes any difference)
Made sure that both pcs in the Network Connections settings had the “Link-lay Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver” & “Link-lay Topology Discovery Responder” were set. (As you can see your wifes computer etc this is obviously already set.)
On the Win7 pc in Network Connections Propeties under Internet Protocol Ver 4 (TCP/IPv4) properties I set a static IP address: eg using your IP address above I set the following:

IP Address: 192.168.1.10
Sub-net mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway ID: 192.168.1.1
WINS & DNS Severs: 192.168.1.1

On the Vista pc added a new printer – “Network Printer” and selected the printer on the Win7 pc with the unique printer name I created earlier when I setup to share the printer. (So now I have two printers listed for the same printer – one for direct connections and the other to use when on the network.)

Please note that I can only print from the Vista pc when the Win7 pc is on.

Hope the above makes sense and is of some help.

Debbie

PS I found the following link that I did also use that may be of help for you: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Networking-home-computers-running-different-versions-of-Windows

Thank you so much Debbie for all your help I just wish it would have worked I have given up trying to print through the network. I connected the printer directly to my computer Vista saw it and installed the driver and I can print when I hook it to my laptop. Its no wonder the people hate Vista. As much as I print this will work fine

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I had similar issues getting printing to work on a Windows 7 64 bit laptop when the printer was connected to a PC running Vista. I struggled with it for a while until I found a solution. I don’t recall exactly where I found the solution, but it is similar to that contained in the following link. Basically you set the printer up as a local printer with the printer port being \computernameprintername

Look down a few posts for the solution.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7hardware/thread/523a479d-c197-40b3-a633-078d80d79eb1

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I had similar issues getting printing to work on a Windows 7 64 bit laptop when the printer was connected to a PC running Vista. I struggled with it for a while until I found a solution. I don’t recall exactly where I found the solution, but it is similar to that contained in the following link. Basically you set the printer up as a local printer with the printer port being \computernameprintername

Look down a few posts for the solution.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7hardware/thread/523a479d-c197-40b3-a633-078d80d79eb1

Thanks Kurt this is one of the first things I tried and this is the error I got Access is denied

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Hello, Jim Sheldon. I don’t know if you are still having fun with your printer or not. I did just a little research and have a couple questions.

>Are you wanting to be able only to print to this printer, or use ‘all-in-one’ features also?

>Have you downloaded the driver directly from Lexmark?

Sometimes that’s the only way I’ve gotten something to work is downloading directly from the products’ website.

Lexmark X5150 Driver

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Hello, Jim Sheldon. I don’t know if you are still having fun with your printer or not. I did just a little research and have a couple questions.

>Are you wanting to be able only to print to this printer, or use ‘all-in-one’ features also?

>Have you downloaded the driver directly from Lexmark?

Sometimes that’s the only way I’ve gotten something to work is downloading directly from the products’ website.

Lexmark X5150 Driver

cjsx5100en is the latest 64bit driver from lexmark Thanks

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See http://bro.ws/589883L. Even though it talks about file sharing the same concepts apply to printer sharing. Almost everything there should apply to Windows 7 too. Also, there are some good links near the end of the post to other articles around the web on Windows networking.

Joe

--Joe

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See http://bro.ws/589883L. Even though it talks about file sharing the same concepts apply to printer sharing. Almost everything there should apply to Windows 7 too. Also, there are some good links near the end of the post to other articles around the web on Windows networking.

Joe

Thank you Joe for the help. Its 10:20 pm CST And I found the answer, the answer was found in the permissions. The link you provided led me to another Vista networking site. and I’ll try to list the steps in order so someone else can use this information

This applys to both Vista and Windows 7

1. click start, then computer, windowswindows system32spool then RIGHT click printers click on the sharing tab advanced sharing permissions high light Everyone and check Full Control apply ok ok.
2. Now Click on the Securty tab Edit Add Advanced Find Now scroll down to and high ligh NETWORK ok ok make sure full control is checked and then click ok or apply and close everything till your back on the desk top. You must do this to both computers (The Vista and the Windows 7 Computer)
3. On my Vista I went to control panel Hardware and sound printers add a printeradd a local printer use an existing port \computernameprintername follow the wizard.
I didn’t have to create a new port cause it was already there when I tried to create it and Vista told me that it was there. So I used the existing port and followed the wizard and printed a test page and it fired right up.

I think that covers everything

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I have two desktop computers and a lap top on my network, the Computer Name and Full Computer Name is different on all three computers and I can print from any one of them.

What needs to be the same on all computers is the Workgroup name. Homegroup is the name suggested by Microsoft/Windows 7. Also make sure the printer has been added to all computers.

I had printing problems until I used the same name for “Workgroup” on all of my computers.

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I have two desktop computers and a lap top on my network, the Computer Name and Full Computer Name is different on all three computers and I can print from any one of them.

What needs to be the same on all computers is the Workgroup name. Homegroup is the name suggested by Microsoft/Windows 7. Also make sure the printer has been added to all computers.

I had printing problems until I used the same name for “Workgroup” on all of my computers.

Thanks I made sure that the names were the same still Access is denied. Not a problem anymore I hooked the printer up direct and Vista found it and installed it so all I have to do is bring the laptop to the computer room and hook up the printer to the laptop and I’m printing. I don’t like it but it works.

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Update: after all I went thru the Lexmark X5150 gave up the ghost. Needless to say old Jimbo was not a happy camper. Well anyway I had to buy a new printer; A Kodak wireless. Reason cheapest ink they sell; 10 dollars for a black cartridge 13 dollars for Color.
The installation on all 3 computers was a breeze. Just follow the prompts.

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