I have seen and done all the permissions, security, sharing, shared printer spool directory...This is absurd, why can't I share this dang printer. Every machine sees it. Heck on vista I can open and view the queue (sp?) , but can't connect.. Why is access denied (I have tried turning off firewall).Please don't give the add local printer, add port thingy, because although quite clever and evidently effective for some connection issues - I see the printer, and that doesn't work.

Well, a little more information. I switched the printer to my windows 7 laptop and shared it. So it works on a networked Vista machine now. So I guess the real problem is that my desktop (where I want the printer being served) is x64 and the other computers are 32 bit. I have installed the extra drivers and tried render on client (check and unchecked). What the heck! Now what. Come to think of it. I can't connect my x64 desktop to the network printers on 32bit systems - that's why I added the printer in my room to the x64 computer. What a bunch of... Anyway, I guess I can look for info on the problem a little more precisely now. Any ideas?

Oh man, I love it.It works now :). I think what helped (I THINK) is turning on UAC and then turning it back off. I had it off to begin with (on the lowest setting), then saw something about how if it's off it does weird things so I turned it on, then turned it back off. Now it works??? Whatever - all I'm saying is that if the idea is better security and I have to turn off everything in order to share a printer, then in the end do I really have better security. NO - I have worse security and a freaking headache!

Connecting to less secure machines will behave that way. UAC is in Windows Vista too, you aren't less secure unless you disable ALL security features, at least you got it working. By you think it is what fixed it, did you do anything else or just re-disable UAC?

:(Unfortunately that only temporarily worked?Back to access denied.... First I just had errors printing from my 32bit win7 machine and from my 32bit vista machine. So then I went to the win7 64bit machine which is serving the printer. I noticed it was no longer even sharing the printer, so I shared it. Still nothing, and now I get the access denied errors again.I may try the diable and re-enable thing... but I think I may be done with this pain for awhile. If windows can't let me share a printer then I guess I'll wait for windows 99 that will be able to read your mind, but still can't connect to shared printers.

I believe I have the exact same issue. Let me know if this is ever resolved. My 64-bit Win7 RC machine (formerly Vista) is connected to the printer. My 32-bit xp machine can print fine over the network to the 64-bit win7 rc machine. My 32-bit vista laptop won't print at all. Even upgraded it to 32-bit Windows 7 rc. Still won't print. Even tried all the "homegroup" stuff. Nothing. Please let me know what you find.