Windows 10: Cannot find printer on Vista PC

Hi

When I had W7 on this I had the PC use the printer on my Vista PC.

When W10 was installed on this PC it did not show the printer on the Vista PC,
W10 showed the Network as Public, I have changed it to private.

I have checked sharing options on both PC's and network and printer sharing
are active on both but Add printer does not find the printer on the Vista PC.

What am I doing wrong?

All help appreciated.

Cheers

Daniel

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Network and printer sharing

just updated to Windows 10 and I can no longer find my printer that was connected to another pc. I cannot even see the computer on network settings. The computer that has the printer connected to it is running on Vista.

 

cannot scan from epsom printer to pc. Printer will print from pc via wifi but will not recognise pc when asked to scan.

Cannot scan from printer to pc. Wifi network is fine and pc will print to printer but when asked to scan, printer cannot find pc via wifi. Have also connected via usb but still have the same issue (pc not found).

 

From the windows 10 pc, Right Click the Start button, Click Run, and then type the following minus the quotes "\\nameofvistapc" and then click enter. If your printer is shared properly, you will see it when you click enter. If it isn't, then you have a sharing issue or you don't have file and print sharing turned on for both pcs. Let us know how it goes...

 

Hi

it did not find the printer so I checked further, I opened the network in explorer on the W10 PC and the printer showed, I right clicked on it to check it's properties and I saw an "Add" I added it and all is well.

Thanks for your help, you gave me a heads-up on what to look for and it worked.

Thanks

Daniel