Hi Alex,

It should be possible to use it. Vista located the driver for my HP 720C
that's shared from an XP-based machine without any special work on my part.
Just indicated that it was a network printer, and when I went to connect it
located the appropriate driver without any redirection from me. If nothing
else, you may just have to set up a local com port with a UNC path to it, as
some older printers that do no support the necessary bidirectional
communication don't work when a print job is sent, even though the
connection seems to be ok.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Alex Ferenstein" <epaalx********.com> wrote in message
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> My XP PC's HP 3325's drivers don't include Vista drivers (which HP hasn't
> updated since 2003) which (as I understand) get downloaded into the client
> computer, in my case, Vista, when I mount this shared printer.
> Since Vista already has a WHQL driver for 3325 included on disk, is it
> somehow possible to use the local Vista driver rather than the downloaded
> one?
>
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