I have a windows 8 laptop, which is part of a network on which there is a desktop running XP 32bit. The XP machine has a Printer, an HP LaserJet 1009, which I want to access from the windows 8 laptop. The machines can see each other on the network and ping each other with 0% packet loss.
I click Add Printer on the windows 8 machine. The windows 8 machine finds the printer on the XP machine, which is set up to be shared on the network. I click to install it, it can’t find the driver through windows update, so I try again and try to install it manually, selecting Have Disk. I point the windows 8 machine to the disk drive with the disk in it when prompted to do so, and it gives me a choice of printer drivers to install, including the P1009. I select the P1009 and it says that the file cannot be found.
I have tried configuring the port manually using the \\computername\sharename format and just about everything I can think of for the past two days and I can’t get a result. Has anyone had this problem and if so is there a solution?
Cheers.