"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote in message
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"RJK" wrote in message
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Hardwa-
TalkTalk's Huawei Echolife HG520b router,
Asus X5DIJ Laptop running Windows 7 64 bit,
Midi-tower XP2200 running Windows Home SP3+ with a
Tenda Wireless-G USB Adapter ( http://www.ebuyer.com/product/159814 ) in
it.
The midi-tower has an Epson SX415 connected to it with a USB lead,
...have gone into Printer properties and set it to be "shared," but,
Win7-Laptop can't see it, so can't see how to install drivers on Laptop
so that it can send print to that printer.
Both PC's have AVG Internet Security suite installed on them, and am
wondering if firewall is interfering / preventing something somewhere,
i.e. should I uninstall that suite on both computers, then try and set up
wifi printing ?
Prior to all above, XP Home PC had an old, but perfect and hardly used,
Epson 670 connected to it with USB lead, and the Win7 laptop could see
it, and wanted a driver for it, but, after hunting through Epson's
web-site - they have not produced a Win7 driver for their old Stylus
670 .....SWINES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, now have a new printer installed into XP Home midi-tower but, Win7
64 bit can't see it through the router.
I have been Googling and wading through material where people are having
similar problems but, my unfamiliarity with Win7, and several other areas
aren't getting me very far.
any help would be much appreciated.
TIA, regards, Richard
This is really a Windows 7 question, not a WinXP question, and you will
find the answer in this Windows 7 forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...1-87057d9f96e9
Thanks "Pegasus [MVP]" ...I followed my nose, and uninstalled AVG 9.0
internet security suite on both machines,
....installed Epson SX415 Windows 7 64 bit printer driver on Laptop,
(which was a hit and miss affair as the driver download from Epson was an
*.exe configured to unzip and straightaway run a setup.exe - which
eventually wanted the printer to be connected - so abandoned it at that
point and rebooted - it must have installed the driver !), as
....Asus Laptop could then see Epson SX415 printer upstairs which is
connected by USB lead to XP2200 XP Home midi-tower with Wireless G USB plug
in it,
....(ISP TalkTalk's Huawei Echolife HG520b wifi / router in the hallway),
....reinstalled AVG 9.0 on both PC's and Asus Laptop can still print to that
printer :-)
So all is working beatifully :-)
....couldn't understand the "Printer Sharing" settings on the XP Home SP3
xp2200+ PC upstairs, where you could check box / select more drivers, so
that they'd be available to people on the "network?" who might want to print
to that printer, and who might be running a different Windows platform,
i.e. there wasn't a "Windows 7" driver in the list, to make available to the
Windows 7 64 bit Laptop !
regards, Richard
ps will visit hyperlink you supplied later today, ...just returned from town
after sorting above !