Hi Zoron, My wife recently renewed her machine from XP into Vista 64, and I had been suffering from

exactly the same situation in trying to share the printer on my Vista 32. As you did, I have found the "local port solution" in the Internet, but when I typed \\Computername\Printername, the reply was always "Access is denied." Since then, I tried almost most of the suggestions on the Web, including firewall issues, UAC ON/OFF, trying to install a 32-bit printer driver into Vista 64, etc, only unsuccessfully. Yes, it really frustrated me to see many "Oh yeah, that worked!!!" But today, I have finally worked it out. I was not able to figure out maybe because I am not familiar with the "permissions" system on Vista. In order to share the printer on a Vista 32 server with a Vista 64 client, we have to share the "spooler printer directory" of Vista 32 server. And here is the point, Vista has two different sets of permissions: "Share Permissions" and "NTFS Permissions". We have to set up both, separately. Geeks would skip this explanation. Here is the step-by-step description on what I did. 1) Share Permissions 1. On explorer, go to C:\windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS 2. Right click, Properties 3. Sharing tab 4. Advanced Sharing 5. Check "Share this folder" 6. Permissions 7. Grant everyone Full Control 2) NTFS Permissions 1. On explorer, go to C:\windows\system32\spool\printers 2. Right click, Properties 3. Security tab 4. Edit 5. Add 6. Advanced 7. Find Now 8. Choose "NETWORK" 9. OK 10. Grant NETWORK Full Control In my case, it worked. I hope it helps you. Best, Drompa