Saturday, February 16, 2008

Connecting to Networked printers in Vista

I had an onsite job today with 4 work grouped PC's (mum, dad and the kids setup)
2 x Vista Premium
1 x XP pro
1x XP Home

1 of the Vista PC's was the master (VHP1), connected to the Router and printer (canon MFC).
The XP machines both found the printer ok with the start run \\VHP1 command.
But the 2nd Vista PC would only show "printers" and this would not resolve to anything.

I tried the VHP1 IP address instead \\192.168.0.2 and bingo!, it showed the canon MFC available.

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