Q: So in our small office, when I try to mount a network printer that is connect through someone else computer instead of a print server OR if they try to connect to mine I get a error message that it is basically invalid print drivers installed. I Figured this is because xp cant install vista print drivers and vis versa. The question is when I brows to locate the propper print driver for the propper OS it still gives me this error. It would be nice if it let me installed the printer anyway and allow me to update the driver manually, but it forces me to cancel. Is there something I am doing wrong? Dell Precision T5400 Mini-Tower Quad Core Xeon Proc E5420, 2.50GHz, 2X6MB L2 Cache,1333MHz 8GB, DDR2 ECC SDRAM Memory 667MHz, 4X2GB nVidia,Quadro FX 4600,768MB dual VGA or DVI 146GB 3Gbps SAS, 15K RPM Hard Drive Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 Edition 28" 16:9 Flat screen monitor 19" 16:9 Flat screen monitor
A: I would install the printer on one machine and when trying to print from another machine you don't even have to install it on the machines that you want to print from. What you do is go to the windows button (start), network, click on the workstation that you want to print to (the one with the printer connected to it), enter username and password, click on printers (make sure it's shared), and when it initializes you will be able to print what you want. This only works if the printer is on an XP machine and you are printing from a Vista machine.