Help me...im using a laptop in the office and this laptop is running on window vista then im trying to connect to the printer of my officemate that is HP Deskjet 3940 and her computer is running on windows xp and also where on in the network connection but i cannot connect to her printer...i run her ip address and i actually see the printer that i want to be connected but every time i double click the icon of her shared printer i always got this message ''the server for the hp deskjet 3900 series printer does not have
the correct printer driver installed. if you want to search for the proper driver,
click ok otherwise, click cancel and contact your network administrator or original
equipment manufacturer for the correct printer driver''
then i'll click ok then got this message ''the file ''*.INF on (unknown) is needed
type the path where the files is located, and then click ok''
i also tried to search or browse that to the installation cd of the printer but i cant find that ''*.INF''
can anyone help me with this all i can say is that i think its with the setting of vista because i tried xp to xp and it works well help thnks in advance
Here is a video of how to do this:
http://www.ehow.com/video_4983477_build-print-server-from-old.html
Bill
It sounds like your are using your Windows XP computer as the print server, and you are trying to connect your Windows Vista machine to the Windows XP print server. Your Vista machine is trying to download the XP drivers from the Windows XP computer to your Vista machine. This won't work. Windows XP and Vista print drivers are not compatible.
If the printer is truely networked (it has it's own IP address on the network, it has its own ethernet connection). Then instead of trying to map out to this shared printer, add new printer to the Vista machine using Vista drivers for the HP Deskjet 3940. The type of port you would need is a standard TCP/IP port. To get this address, print a settings page from the printer. Look for either a TCP/IP address or IP address on this print out. This is the port address you want to create and then connect to.
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ok sir i will try your suggestion i hope this will work for me.....i actually try to download driver for window vista but i think the hp doesnt provide driver for that model so i hope this will work....thnks for rplying...see you later
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