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Replacing One Care's printer sharing feature
Replacing One Care's printer sharing feature
- I have a 32 bit Vista Home Premium desktop, a 64 bit Vista Home Premium laptop a XP laptop all using One Care to share an Epson printer. I am looking for suggestions on how I can continue sharing that printer after uninstalling One Care. My printer has a duplexer for double sised printing and that is not possible with the 64 bit laptop. I would like to add that feature if possible. Thanks!
- Moved byStephen BootsMVP, ModeratorTuesday, September 29, 2009 1:13 PMPrinter Sharing (From:Windows Live OneCare General)
Answers
- If you have a 32 bit and 64 bit machine, they can't be sharing via the OneCare Printer Sharing feature, though the XP and 32 bit Vista machine may.
Basically, you can manually share the printer using built in Windows functionality for a network.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/honeycutt_july2.mspx
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/e3faee7d-a7cd-40aa-b240-006dca11dc451033.mspx
-steve
Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator- Marked As Answer byStephen BootsMVP, ModeratorTuesday, September 29, 2009 1:12 PM
All Replies
- If you have a 32 bit and 64 bit machine, they can't be sharing via the OneCare Printer Sharing feature, though the XP and 32 bit Vista machine may.
Basically, you can manually share the printer using built in Windows functionality for a network.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/honeycutt_july2.mspx
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/e3faee7d-a7cd-40aa-b240-006dca11dc451033.mspx
-steve
Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator- Marked As Answer byStephen BootsMVP, ModeratorTuesday, September 29, 2009 1:12 PM
- I forgot to mention that the duplex printing feature for your printer would require the driver from your printer manufacturer to be supported on each of the PCs. If they do not have a 64 bit driver, you won't be getting that functionality.
-steve
Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator
