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XP Pro cannot print to a shared printer on a Vista Home Basic PC

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Two PC's on a Peer-To-Peer Network.  They share a DSL internet connection and they share a printer.
One PC runs XP Pro and the other PC runs Vista Home Basic.  The printer is installed on the Vista Home Basic PC.  
The XP Pro PC appeared to successfully install the printer that is installed on the Vista Home PC.  the shared printer shows up as a choice of printer, and i can send a print job to that Vista PC without receiving any error messages.  BUT, the XP Pro PC print job shows up on the Vista PC print Q and within 2 seconds dissappears as if it printed, but nothing prints.  I do not get an error message, but I do not get the usual message that a print job was successfully sent to the printer.  I can see the printer on the sharded PC under network neighborhood.
In other words, I cannot get the XP Pro machine to print to the Vista Home Basic PC Lexmark printer.  The printer is about 6 months old.
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Question Asked By: dastaub
Solution Provided By: 1r2d2c3po
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