Windows Vista wont access XP Shared Printer

[Mondeo]

This drove me nuts earlier, my first real experience with Vista.

 

I have a Windows XP machine with a shared printer, the sharename is \\computer1\hpoffice. Ip address of machine 192.168.2.3

 

I have a Windoes Vista machine called computer 2 with IP 192.168.2.2

 

I can ping between the machines fine.

 

I'm trying to access the printer from the Vista machine, tried using the standard add printer, network printer, share name. Tried both using the UNC path \\computer1\hpoffice and also by ip \\192.168.2.3\hpoffice. The error message was - the network path could not be found.

 

Both machines are in the same workgroup. Cannot browse to the XP one whatsoever, again - the network path could not be found.

 

What am i missing?

 

Cheers

[PlausiblyDamp]

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=938979 might be worth a look as amongst the problems listed it has

If User Account Control is disabled on the computer, you cannot install a network printer successfully. This problem occurs if the network printer is hosted by a Windows XP-based or a Windows Server 2003-based computer.

[Mondeo]

Managed to get them talking to each other by installing a new protocol on the XP machine - Link Layer Topology Discovery Responder. But now a new error when I try and connect to the printer

 

"Windows cannot connect to the printer. The server print spooler service is

not running. Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server

machine."

 

Its rubbish, the spooler service on the XP machine is running fine and I can print no problem from other non Vista PC's

 

I've only managed to find a handful of references to this error (like the one below) and no solution.

 

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-networking-sharing/19061-spooler-network-printer-problem.html

 

Any ideas?

 

Cheers