Connecting a Windows 7 machines to an XP shared printer
Posted by The Squad on November 20, 2009 – 10:04 am
This is a call i have been getting a lot from the help desk users lately. Thought it might help some of guys out.
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).
4) Create NEW port==>Local port
5) Portname is \\XPMACHINE\SHAREDPRINTERNAME
6) Now Windows 7 will load a driver and you’ll be able to print on the XP machine.
Simple
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