Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

smithveg — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:49:30 GMT

It's wasting of time to fix the vista printing problem.

I have a hp printer, it doesn't print well in vista. Sometimes the wording, or the line was not align properly.

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

Dave — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:47:49 GMT

I followed the above steps to install the Vista x64 drivers onto my 2003 R2 x32 print server. They show up in the console, but are not enabled as "additional drivers" by default in the printer properties. When I go and check the box to add them as additional drivers, I get prompted for the .inf files.

I thought the whole purpose of adding them this way was so that you would not be prompted for the disk, no? Since I installed the drivers from the built-in drivers that are included in the Vista software, I do not have the separate .inf file that I know of.

Could someone share some light?

Thanks,

Dave

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

ryan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:12:06 GMT

i am experiancing the same issues as dave. i have added the drivers to the server but i cannot push them to vista clients. It keeps asking me for an INF file that i dont have seeing as i am using the built in vista driver.

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

Shawn — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:32:56 GMT

I think I'm having the same problem as Dave and Ryan. Installing the driver to the share appeared to work, but I can't actually select the shared printer from Vista without being prompted for "*.inf" which I have no idea where to find.

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

CSS — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:04:38 GMT

what if we wanted to add vista x86 printer drivers to a windows server 2003 x64 system.

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

Nick — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:03:22 GMT

Hi folks,

the key to success, is to logon to the vista client with an account, which has admin rights on the printer server.

Good luck.

Nick

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

McScotty — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:01:27 GMT

I'm trying to do this, but on a Windows 2000 print server. Unfortunately, the W2K print server doesn't comprehend the x64 architecture, so my 64-bit drivers won't load.

Is there a way to teach the W2K server a new trick, or must I put this beast out to pasture, and build a W2K3 print server?

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

AP — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:54:08 GMT

I've tried the above method adding vista drivers to a 2008 server. I can get all the way to the end of the wizard, and the driver appears to want to copy to the server. However, there's some error that causes the copy to restart 3 times (at different places in the copy), and the wizard returns "Unable to install %print driver%. Operation could not be completed (error 0x57)."

I've disabled the vista filewall, and I can load vendor supplied drivers (for vista) through a 2003 client without a problem. My hangup is that the drivers I need are only on the vista install.

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

Nembo — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:07:55 GMT

I am trying to load vista drivers to windows 2003 Server Sp2. However when I add driver I get who errors

Type 3 - User Mode,x86 Driver, Access is denied

Failed to add driver. Operations could not be completed ( error 0x000000578)

I am using the admin account thats local admin on both local machine (vista) as well as windows 2003 server

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

Cliff Simpson — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:02:40 GMT

This is nice; however, I need to find a way to script the installation of printers in a fully automated mode. I need to install 50 printers on 30 Windows 2003 servers. I can't seem to get the WMI scripts to work due to security issues. I was told that the WMI API calls are intended as READONLY properties and that I cannot install printers that way. Is there an automated (non-GUI) method that can be scripted?

re: Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003

Lisa Ohrum — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:38:21 GMT

John, (Vista 64 bit on Windows 2003 server). I can get the drivers copied to the Windows 2003 x86 server, but like others in this post, when I use a Vista 64 bit computer to try to connect the printer, it always asked me for a printer driver. I AM logging onto the server with credentials of administrator, but it won't download my drivers to the Vista machines. The printer also does NOT have the 64x checked when I view it as though the printer I have installed on the print server can't find the x64 driver (even though it shows on my driver list).

Has anyone resolved the above issues?