Sharing printer

[btcomm]

XP computer has a printer hooked up to it, it's shared out.


On the vista machine, I add the printer with the vista driver, create a new local port \\computer\printer. I can print to the printer, I reboot the vista machine and the printer is offline, when I go into ports the \\computer\printer port is not listed and when I try to add the port it says that it already exists. I go into the registry and remove the port, reboot I can add the port again, it is listed in ports I can print. If I reboot the same thing happens, printer again goes offline and will not list the port and will not go online if I try to make it go onilne.

[Train]

And the make and model of the printer is?

Have you checked for updated drivers?

[btcomm]

Well it is an epson stylus c62, it's not driver related though because I created a completely new printer, created a completely brand new fake port and when I rebooted the same thing had happened, the port disappeared and the printer went offline.

[Train]

Is Printer spooler started automatically in services.msc?

Should you have used Black Vipers hints, you may have turned something else off the printer needs.

Epson does not have a driver for Vista and just maybe leading you to get a replacement printer.