Hi all,
I have a windows 7 machine with a Canon ip1800 printer hooked up to it via usb. This printer works fine. In the Sharing section, i've set up a share name, even kept it to 8 characters to be as backward compatible as possible.
I have an XP machine that I want to be able to connect to this printer.
On the xp machine I do the normal sharing dialog thing, and it gives me the warning "You're about to install a printer that will install a driver....blah...blahh..."
Then the message comes up that says (something like) "the computer doesn't have the right drivers for this OS, would you like to search for a driver?"
So here it goes right to that ancient dialog that prompts for an .inf file. But *where* would I look for that driver? I checked every .inf file in c:\Windows\Inf, and nothing 'canon' like. I have installed the correct driver .exe from Canon for XP, and it does it's install thing--but it never puts an .inf file (that I can find, anyway). It doesn't create a directory in Program Files, nothing. So where is this phantom driver or .inf file?
And to make matters worse--before any of this I tried that same XP driver on my Win 7 machine--so that the win 7 machine *would* have the correct driver when I chose to share to the XP machine.
SO I can't install the XP driver on Win 7, and I can't navigate to the driver on the XP machine. And as a final slap in the face--I attempt to install the wrong driver on purpose so I can later just go to device manager and do an update--it won't even allow me to install the wrong one. As if it cares.
How do I get this printer shared?
Thanks,
--Jim
I have a windows 7 machine with a Canon ip1800 printer hooked up to it via usb. This printer works fine. In the Sharing section, i've set up a share name, even kept it to 8 characters to be as backward compatible as possible.
I have an XP machine that I want to be able to connect to this printer.
On the xp machine I do the normal sharing dialog thing, and it gives me the warning "You're about to install a printer that will install a driver....blah...blahh..."
Then the message comes up that says (something like) "the computer doesn't have the right drivers for this OS, would you like to search for a driver?"
So here it goes right to that ancient dialog that prompts for an .inf file. But *where* would I look for that driver? I checked every .inf file in c:\Windows\Inf, and nothing 'canon' like. I have installed the correct driver .exe from Canon for XP, and it does it's install thing--but it never puts an .inf file (that I can find, anyway). It doesn't create a directory in Program Files, nothing. So where is this phantom driver or .inf file?
And to make matters worse--before any of this I tried that same XP driver on my Win 7 machine--so that the win 7 machine *would* have the correct driver when I chose to share to the XP machine.
SO I can't install the XP driver on Win 7, and I can't navigate to the driver on the XP machine. And as a final slap in the face--I attempt to install the wrong driver on purpose so I can later just go to device manager and do an update--it won't even allow me to install the wrong one. As if it cares.
How do I get this printer shared?
Thanks,
--Jim
