Last Updated on December 4, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
I just got a laptop primarily for the road that runs on Vista Home Premium. I was setting up the printers from the home office and ran into a nightmare with an HP Photosmart A512 printer that was shared off an XP Home machine.
I tried browsing for a network printer and was getting all kinds of “Access denied” messages. I did some searching and it appeared to be a known issue.
Eventually I found some posts that allowed me to connect. I had to set it up as a local port calling out the name of the machine (Server) and the printer share… Something like \officemachineHP Photosmart A512 That seemed to work but it took over an hour of effort to get there. About 2 weeks later I had to set up another laptop with Vista Home Premium and ran into the same problem. Using the first machine as a model, I was able to get it connected in about 10 minutes.
This is a bit insane considering how long Vista has been out.