Printer sharing with Vista = big headache

[Philly Phanboy]

Yesterday I tried with no success to get Vista to work with a shared printer and kept getting the "not authorized" prompt. All of the troubleshooting FAQs I could find deal only with computers running similar OS's which doesn't help at all.

Computer 1 is a desktop running XP with the shared printer authorizing the everybody group to have print privilages. The firewall is set to trust Computer 2.

Computer 2 is a wireless laptop running Vista. The firewall on this system includes Computer 1 as being trusted. I can see the shared printer on the network but like I said, I get a "not authorized" message when trying to use the printer setup applet.

How do I get this stupid printer to work? It isn't a firewall problem so is it a driver problem or a privilege problem?

 

[Fran]

It might be a driver problem... I don't think I can get drivers for my HP printer yet.

I have Vista on a wireless laptop as well, but I have my own printer.