Shared printer problem. XP to Vista printing.

Shared printer problem. XP to Vista printing.

I have a Vista computer and an XP computer. Both are on a domain.
I have an HP Laserjet 1018 printer attached and installed locally on
the Vista computer.
The printer is shared and is added to the XP computer.

When printing from XP to the laserjet printer on Vista it acts like it
goes..no errors but nothing comes out.
However, if you restart the print spooler then the jobs start
printing.
The printer works fine when printing from the Vista machine but not
when you try to print from other computers on the network.
Anyone know how to resolve this without having to restart the print
spooler all the time?

Drivers have been reinstalled and that does not help.
I also tried removing the printer. Re-adding it. Sharing it again and
re-adding it to other hosts on the network....same issue.

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"Steve" <srudenko@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a Vista computer and an XP computer. Both are on a domain.
> I have an HP Laserjet 1018 printer attached and installed locally on
> the Vista computer.
> The printer is shared and is added to the XP computer.
>
> When printing from XP to the laserjet printer on Vista it acts like it
> goes..no errors but nothing comes out.
> However, if you restart the print spooler then the jobs start
> printing.
> The printer works fine when printing from the Vista machine but not
> when you try to print from other computers on the network.
> Anyone know how to resolve this without having to restart the print
> spooler all the time?
>
> Drivers have been reinstalled and that does not help.
> I also tried removing the printer. Re-adding it. Sharing it again and
> re-adding it to other hosts on the network....same issue.

RE: Shared printer problem. XP to Vista printing.

Hope you don't mind if I piggy-back on this.
I have a similar problem but going the other way
I have a XP SP2 computer with a X1185 attached to it.
I have a Vista business comuter. Both are on a router and Vista can "see"
the XP in My Network. I can open the XP and see the printer, X1185.
I have added a network printer to the Vista "successfully". But when I
print to the network printer the spool file on the Vista shows it ready to
go, but the XP does not show it in the spool and nothing prints.

Any Ideas would be appreciated!!

"Steve" wrote:

> I have a Vista computer and an XP computer. Both are on a domain.
> I have an HP Laserjet 1018 printer attached and installed locally on
> the Vista computer.
> The printer is shared and is added to the XP computer.
>
> When printing from XP to the laserjet printer on Vista it acts like it
> goes..no errors but nothing comes out.
> However, if you restart the print spooler then the jobs start
> printing.
> The printer works fine when printing from the Vista machine but not
> when you try to print from other computers on the network.
> Anyone know how to resolve this without having to restart the print
> spooler all the time?
>
> Drivers have been reinstalled and that does not help.
> I also tried removing the printer. Re-adding it. Sharing it again and
> re-adding it to other hosts on the network....same issue.
>

Re: Shared printer problem. XP to Vista printing.

Hi Steve - I believe your problem is with the client computer you are trying to print from (in your case the Windows XP computer). On the client computer open the Control Panel and select "Printers and Other Hardware", then click on "Printers and Faxes". Locate and right-click on the shared printer you created that points to the Vista-attached printer. Select Properties, then select Ports, and you will likely see that the box beside "Enable Bidirectional Support" is checked. Uncheck this box and then select the "General" tab, and select "Print Test Page" - this should print correctly to your Vista-attached printer.

The problem appears to be the fact that Windows, by default, enables a bi-directional printer communication link whenever a new printer is added, and this is usually fine when the printer is locally attached, but when you are printing from a client to a remote server, with this option selected the client will wait for (yet never receive) confirmation that the print job is spooled to the "printer", so the job stalls. The server will hold onto the print job (it will show as "Printing" in the both the client and server printer queue windows), yet nothing will print until the spooler service is stopped and re-started (or the server is re-started), at which time all queued jobs will print.

Disabling the bi-directional protocol/support on the client as described above should get you around this problem.

RE: Shared printer problem. XP to Vista printing.

Hi,

Have you solved this problem, Bcoz i am also face this problem, If you
solved, mail me "how you solved?" this problem
My ID Is pjsubramanian@xxxxxx

Regards,
Subramanian.J

"Steve" wrote:

> I have a Vista computer and an XP computer. Both are on a domain.
> I have an HP Laserjet 1018 printer attached and installed locally on
> the Vista computer.
> The printer is shared and is added to the XP computer.
>
> When printing from XP to the laserjet printer on Vista it acts like it
> goes..no errors but nothing comes out.
> However, if you restart the print spooler then the jobs start
> printing.
> The printer works fine when printing from the Vista machine but not
> when you try to print from other computers on the network.
> Anyone know how to resolve this without having to restart the print
> spooler all the time?
>
> Drivers have been reinstalled and that does not help.
> I also tried removing the printer. Re-adding it. Sharing it again and
> re-adding it to other hosts on the network....same issue.
>

Re: Shared printer problem. XP to Vista printing.

Hello,
It is a complicated problem.
A work-around is here: 'Anton Staykov's Blog: Network printing with
VISTA and XP / print spooler hangs' (http://tinyurl.com/4rd9k7)
This solution is found spending hours and hours with HP online support
as well as Microsoft TechNet forums and VISTA forums.

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