Trying to connect the kids' PC (running XP) to the printer on my Win 7 PC.
The network side of things seems fine - on the XP machine I can go into 'add a printer', browse, and find the printer I want.
The problem is from that point. When I select the printer I get a message about automatically installing a driver from the server, then a message about a suitable driver not being available. So I carry on to browse for a driver manually ... and that's what I can't get past!
It's looking for a .inf file. I've got the installation CD for the printer, and can navigate to the file on that ... but it then says "Windows cannot locate a suitable printer driver".
I downloaded and successfully installed the latest driver directly onto the XP machine. Tried pointing the 'add a printer' dialog to the .inf now on the C: drive, but same message about not being able to locate a suitable driver.
I'd have thought I should be able to point the locally installed driver to the printer on the network (as you pick a port, for a local printer), but I couldn't see any obvious way to do that.
So I'm a bit stuck - any help/suggestions would be much appreciated!
The network side of things seems fine - on the XP machine I can go into 'add a printer', browse, and find the printer I want.
The problem is from that point. When I select the printer I get a message about automatically installing a driver from the server, then a message about a suitable driver not being available. So I carry on to browse for a driver manually ... and that's what I can't get past!
It's looking for a .inf file. I've got the installation CD for the printer, and can navigate to the file on that ... but it then says "Windows cannot locate a suitable printer driver".
I downloaded and successfully installed the latest driver directly onto the XP machine. Tried pointing the 'add a printer' dialog to the .inf now on the C: drive, but same message about not being able to locate a suitable driver.
I'd have thought I should be able to point the locally installed driver to the printer on the network (as you pick a port, for a local printer), but I couldn't see any obvious way to do that.
So I'm a bit stuck - any help/suggestions would be much appreciated!