Excellent – This worked when trying to get a 32 bit vista machine to load the driver from a 64 bit windows 7 machine.

without using ip address i want to access my network printer

Hi and thanx so much for your info!!
I couldnt get it to work the way you described so I checked
the correct path and found I had left out a space between the printer number and the letter: hp2550l = hp2550 L and the last letter was in CAPITAL letters… Then it worked straight away!!
Very ironic that you have to install a “local” printer port to get a netwoork printer to work… Roll on Win 7, roll out VISTA!

Keep up the good work! )

Sorry, Its not work for me.Please give me other option

This has stopped working for me. I can no longer connect to the network printer. When I enter the port name it responds with “Logon failure: unknown username or bad password.”

The annoying thing is it was all working until about a week back. I have added no software nor made any changes to the Vista machine. All other computers on the home network print just fine but none are running Vista. No surprises there I guess.

Thanks

Bert

This is so simple and should be put in the installation manual by those in charge. But that would be too easy. Thank you for an easy fix to a n annoying problem.

I have a problem with step 8. The host is a Vista 64 with a Canon MP500 attached. Correct drivers installed. The client is a Vista 32 laptop. Both set for private network. Continue to get “access denied”

A box will appear asking you to create a port name. Type in \\computername\printername where “computername” is the name of the computer that has the printer physically installed, and “printername” is the sharing name you assigned to the printer. Eg. My computer name was Office, and the printer sharing name was hpprinter, so I typed \\Office\hpprinter

Thank you, it worked!!!

And this shows how the improvement in using new OS is done by Micro$oft? Stupidity and insanity for the people…

Thanks anyway, this solution helped me a lot