Trouble connecting a network printer

Steve, Thanks for the response. I applied the update to both of my XP systems and rebooted them all. I'm not certain what to do next. I have Network Magic but I still can't seem to connect to the printer from my Vista system.

Steve, I apologize for my ignorance but how does one access the Network Mapping feature? I searched for "Network Mapping feature" in Help and Support but didn't find any specific help on this topic. What I did find was a topic on "Troubleshoot problems with computers not appearing on the network map". In this topic there was a link for "Your computer is running Windows Vista and the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) protocol is disabled on the network adapter. Windows uses the LLTD protocol to map computers and devices on a network. To enable LLTD, follow these steps: Click to open Network Connections. Right-click the network adapter icon, and then click Properties. Select the Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver and Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder check boxes, and then click OK." In my case both of these item were checked already. In Network and Sharing Center (Vista system) I have Network discovery and file sharing on. I am unable to turn on printer sharing as there are no printers installed. If I enter the name of the XP system that has the physical printer attached to it in the Vista Start menu search box I can navigate to the printer. Double clicking on this printer simply opens the queue but nothing else. Rick

We figured it out. We had some other applications running when trying to download/install the file. Once we stopped these other applications we were able to do what we wanted to. Thanks for your assistance.