The main issue here is deciding who Kreacher belongs to. While beforehand Kreacher did belong to Sirius, he did everything grudgingly, if at all. Therefore, it wouldn't really be a good idea for Harry to summon him outright, as Kreacher could bypass this and come whenever he felt like it- tehnically, if he still came eventually, he wouldn't be disobeying. It would have been terribly annoying to sit in the Dursleys' house for a few hours/days to see if a house elf shows up or not.
As for Dumbledore being able to summon him, all I got for that is that maybe Dumbledore did manage to have some control over Kreacher in the past. House-elves will obey more than one "master", as long as they're part of the family they're serving. For example, Dobby would obey any of the Malfoys, and Kreacher would obey the painting of Mrs. Black as well as Sirius. With Dumbledore as not only Secret Keeper of Grimmauld Place, the family house, but also leader of the Order of the Phoenix, it would make sense if Kreacher obeyed him by default. Then again, one may argue that once Sirius died, this didn't matter anyway.
If Dumbledore has no "official" control over Kreacher, he probably just had him in control the way people can have control over one another. Kreacher, though mean spirited as he is, probably couldn't do much to resist a powerful wizard like Dumbledore. Honestly, when they vacated Grimmauld Place, someone probably had the sense to take Kreacher with them, as no one would want some Death Eater stumbling upon him while they were gone, even if Harry did own him. Dumbledore probably just left Kreacher somewhere and told him to wait until he summoned him, and gave him a convincing enough reason to stay put, either through threats or rationalization.
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