Add unc printer port windows 7

Details required :. Cancel Submit. Steve Diesel. Hi, Follow these steps and check if it works: 1. Refer this links to know more about adding a printer. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. This site in other languages x. What now? Thanks, this really helped. My old but good accounting software only works on an XP system, and I was worried when my new Lexmark printer had no XP driver.

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Are you running in a VM environment? I have tried various suggestions as to the registry key addtions etal in other forums, and the hotfix from MS did not resolve either. Yes, under "Printer Properties" there is a Ports tab.

In the ports tab, you will see a list of ports with printers bound to them. Checking a port's box will bind the printer to that port. Regarding my network printer on a Windows XP box, it turns out that the printer driver was too new for Microsoft to deal with.

When I reinstalled Windows XP for a totally unrelated reason, the standard printer driver was installed and I was able to add the printer on Windows 7 as a network printer not the UNC pathname method with no problem. Adding a printer that way seems to work without ports vanishing if the system lets you - in my case, it previously wasn't letting me and I had to use the UNC path. That is what I have been attempting, and when I read your original post, yours is 'exactly', word for word, except for the printer name the same scenario that we are experiencing.

Everything works, until reboot or restart and some of windows updates do an auto-restart with out asking!!! After the restart, the 'localport' s , we have two printers shared from the XP's to network we are connecting to, they are just plain not there. When I try and add the localport again, windows states that it is already there, but in the printer properties, the port is not there.

Removing the printer s , rebooting, effectively does nothing. When I try to reinstall the printer, again "Windows 7 pro 64" tells me that the 'localport' is already there. We don't see it, but Windows internally does. I have to go into the registry and blow away the references to the 'localport', and then afterwards, I can add the printer again and recreate the localport, and everthing works fine until the next reboot.

Unfortunately for us, re-installing XP on production workstations is out of the question, and our whole upgrade to Windows 7 is now on total hold until we get this resolved. Thank you for replying, I am heartned to hear that your problem went away with the XP reinstall, unfortunately for us, we will need to keep searching support forums for a solution.

On your Windows 7 box, how are you installing the XP printer? Are you telling the wizard that it is a local printer or a network printer? The local printer method with the UNC pathname really does not appear to be fully supported in Windows 7 - at least that is what I was told.

In my case, whenever I tried to install the printer HP DeskJet c as a network printer, it tried to find the appropriate driver and couldn't find it based on the HP driver that was running on the XP.