Adding Win XP printer share to Win 7 64 Bit OS

Posted at 5:33:31 PM in Installations (43)

 Excellent information on how to do this on this page

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I found the answer here:-

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7hardware/thread/bd43f9f6-e231-484f-a3b8-e06afeee7c7e

This post says:-

The 32bit driver name is different than the 64bit driver name.  You will need to create a Local Port which will basically copy the print formated data to the xpmachine share.

Here's the KB how to perform this task
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282842

on Windows 7
Add Printer
Local Printer
Add Local Port
XPMACHINEprintersharename    (Make the share name one word or you have to "" quote the whole thing)

Select the driver installed when you connected the device to USB

complete the wizard

print test page.

Other items that I had to look up was getting an error when trying: cannot connect to printer 0x00004005

 

Written by Leonard Rogers on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 | Comments (0)


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