Having trouble printing to a networked printer (say, on your workgroups Windows Server 2003?) in Vista? Have UAC (User Access Control) disabled? There is your problem! Vista won’t install the print drivers remotely from a networked printer, without UAC enabled. The only solution is to enable UAC, and then add the printers. Oh yeah, you can’t be logged in as Administrator, either (but another account with admin privileges will work).
YAY for bugs!
Thanks much to neosmart.net for the tip!
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May 25th, 2007 at 11:22 am
So that’s why I couldn’t print! Da.. Vi…
Thanks for that useful tip!
May 25th, 2007 at 11:44 am
glad I could help, this one was driving me nuts for months now!
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:29 pm
You can actully, you just have to add the printer as a local port.
1. Add new printer
2. Local printer
3. New port - Local port
4. Enter \\computername\share name
5. install drivers as normal
6. ignore horrible error and installer never finishing
7. restart spooler service (if nessasary)
8. look at your printers and it should be there.
9. pay me money for letting you go another 5 min without UAC