Laptop no longer connects to printer on home network

Oops I see yours and your daughters both don't work any longer and it's
since SP1, doing a restore to before then might get it working but you would
loose the benefits of SP1. If you can go back though and prove it and maybe
get with Kodak support and explain the situation maybe it's something with
their driver.
"Moose95" <Moose95.3k0cc4 RemoveThis @no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks Patrick. Yes, I can see the printer on the network, attached to
> yellow-pc. However, when I try to right-click and add, I get the exact
> same error as before. When I try to double-click, I get a similar
> error: 0x00000709 - operation could not be completed.
>
> FWIW, I can see the shared drives from the Yellow PC and open
> everything on the D drive (with data only), but I am having a similar
> issue accessing all of the C drive - Vista will not let me share the
> whole C drive on the network, so I have to go into each folder to share
> it separately. Very odd. On the D drive, all i had to do was share
> "D", and it let me get to every subdirectory. Perhaps this is a clue,
> and there is some directory on C that I need to make sure is set to
> share...
>
>
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> Moose95
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>

P.S. I'm running a HP dv6000 laptop with Vista Home Premium and SP1 sharing
a printer (HP) on a HP Desktop with Vista Home Premium SP1 and sharing a
printer (Brother) on a XP desktop SP3, having no problems. You don't have
a different model printer you can try to eliminate the possibility of the
driver issue?
"Patrick C" <me.TakeThisOut@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Oops I see yours and your daughters both don't work any longer and it's
> since SP1, doing a restore to before then might get it working but you
> would loose the benefits of SP1. If you can go back though and prove it
> and maybe get with Kodak support and explain the situation maybe it's
> something with their driver.
> "Moose95" <Moose95.3k0cc4.TakeThisOut@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
> news:Moose95.3k0cc4@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com...
>>
>> Thanks Patrick. Yes, I can see the printer on the network, attached to
>> yellow-pc. However, when I try to right-click and add, I get the exact
>> same error as before. When I try to double-click, I get a similar
>> error: 0x00000709 - operation could not be completed.
>>
>> FWIW, I can see the shared drives from the Yellow PC and open
>> everything on the D drive (with data only), but I am having a similar
>> issue accessing all of the C drive - Vista will not let me share the
>> whole C drive on the network, so I have to go into each folder to share
>> it separately. Very odd. On the D drive, all i had to do was share
>> "D", and it let me get to every subdirectory. Perhaps this is a clue,
>> and there is some directory on C that I need to make sure is set to
>> share...
>>
>>
>> --
>> Moose95
>> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>>
>

Thanks Patrick. I have one of those "buy a computer, get a printer free
after rebate" little printers stashed in the basement somewhere - I will
dig it out and see if that does the trick. Nice to know your laptop is
working fine - I have a DV2500, and my daughter has a DV6500, so I am
beginning to think this is something to do with the printer, not
Vista... thought the printer USED to work just fine until sometime
around the SP-1 release. Perhaps it triggered a weird issue in the
Kodak Driver. There is essentially nothing on the Kodak boards, though
they are not the greatest in any case. I'll let you know what I find.
Thanks again for everyone's help, and feel free to chime in if something
rings a bell with you about this... I have almost resigned myself to
plugging in the printer to the laptop every time I have to print until
Windows 7 comes out! Thanks - Bob


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Moose95
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Not sure if you are still having problems. I too was having problems
connecting to a network printer.

I found and followed the following link and it resolved my issue:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080811183548AAjvWHe

Good luck.

Tracy

"Moose95" wrote:

>
> Thanks Patrick. I have one of those "buy a computer, get a printer free
> after rebate" little printers stashed in the basement somewhere - I will
> dig it out and see if that does the trick. Nice to know your laptop is
> working fine - I have a DV2500, and my daughter has a DV6500, so I am
> beginning to think this is something to do with the printer, not
> Vista... thought the printer USED to work just fine until sometime
> around the SP-1 release. Perhaps it triggered a weird issue in the
> Kodak Driver. There is essentially nothing on the Kodak boards, though
> they are not the greatest in any case. I'll let you know what I find.
> Thanks again for everyone's help, and feel free to chime in if something
> rings a bell with you about this... I have almost resigned myself to
> plugging in the printer to the laptop every time I have to print until
> Windows 7 comes out! Thanks - Bob
>
>
> --
> Moose95
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>
>

After reading about some of your problems, I thought it might help to add mine. I am running Vista on one desktop computer, and two laptops. I also have a fourth computer running XP (a desktop). All of them are connected on a home network. Both desktops have a printer, one is an HP 5600 and the other is a Canon i850. Two weeks ago I went on vacation and shut down both desktops, and killed power to them in case of a lightning strike or something.
I took both laptops with me on vacation and used them on a different home network as well as a Verizon air card. Everything worked fine.

When I cam home and booted up the main desktop (running Vista), I had no problems connecting to the network with my laptops, but neither one of them can print anymore. When I would try to print, basically I would get a very long time lag, and then explorer would crash, again the same for both laptops. Also, it doesn't matter which printer I try to connect to, the same thing happens. When I try to install a new printer, it takes five minutes to look for the printer, even while finding the printer on the network manually.

So, I tried the following. I reformatted one laptop and installed a fresh install of Vista. Nothing changed. Thinking the problem was with the desktop, I upgraded the OS from Vista Home Premium, to Vista Ultimate. Still no luck. There was one change. Now when Vista (Laptop) searches for printers in th Add Printer Wizard, it can see the printers, but it still takes forever to install the printer. Once it is installed, I still can't print. I have also reinstalled new drivers for the main printer (HP).

Once again, the same computers running the same OS used to print flawlessly, but now can't. There was no way that a windows update could have caused the problem, because the computers had no power to them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.