[HOUND DOG]

We have just installed a Belkin high speed mode wireless g router with built in usb print server. it is connected to a desktop running XP and the printer is a HP deskjet 5550 series.
My new HP laptop is Vista home premium the printing problem is as follows,
Whenever I try to print anything the laptop finds the printer but comes up with 'print error' and stores the document. Nothing I do will make the darn thing print. Now comes the strange part, when i turn the laptop off and then turn it back on the stored document prints as soon as i put in my password. please tell me someone has the smarts to solve my problem. I cant spend the rest of my life turning the laptop off and then back on just to make the blinking thing print.
There are two other laptops in the house both running XP that print just fine.

Yours truly one very frustrated U.K. Vista user.

[vindicator2008]

well well. vista is one frustrating thing, indeed. i like the colors and some little gadgets and stuff, but overall it is a piece of doggie bag content.
to your printer, you need to give permissions, beside enabling printer sharing and private network setting. check out your firewall setting also. it sounds like it is a permission problem, inducing from the simple fact it prints after you log in again. weird indeed.
okay, this is what you do. i do not know if it is the way for the printer, but it should be similar:
printer options. sharing, advanced sharing, add, permissions, and give permissions to everyone on the darn list. vista will probably send you to hell that you do not have sufficient rights to do that and in that case you need to dig even further and go to vista registry and temporarily disable some fundamental functions. these may cause the entire system to crash and you will be in bigger trouble then. but dont worry, it just might not happen . as to what to disable, i do not remember, it is one two or three registries. oh and at the time you disable the registries, your computer will be very vulnerable to internet pirates.
a lot of fun right?
good luck