An overseas friend mailed me and he said that he just recently upgraded his computers and installed Windows Vista. But just when he thought that everything is OK an error appeared when he tries to connect to a shared network printer. The error he received was “Windows cannot connect to the printer. Access is denied”. He can’t seems to understand why he received that error because everything else on the network appears to be working properly, shared files, internet access, etc. However, he just cannot access the shared printer and print.

I told him that the best solution is to add a printer as a local printer and then try to print again. I gave him the following instructions and it worked for him with no any other problem. If you also experienced the same problem you can my guide to be able to connect to your printer.