Print Sharing in Win 7

Jman13

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Apr 9, 2001
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Hi. I've been running the Win 7 RC (x64) for a while now (love it, BTW), but I can't get my printer to work properly on my network, so that my two laptops (both running XP) can print to my printer, which is connected to the Win 7 machine.

I have print sharing enabled, and the printer itself shows itself as a shared device, yet when I try and add the printer on my laptops over the network, no printers are available on the network. I can see the shared documents folders on the Win 7 machine, but not the printer.

I also tried to set up the printer to have the x86 drivers handy for installation, and I can't get that to work (it says the x86 drivers are not valid, though they are directly downloaded from the HP website).

Any solutions, or will I need to wait for the full release of Win7 before I can get this to work?