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Printer sharing
I have a home network setup and I bought a new printer so I want to share
that printer with my laptop in another room but when I use the wizard to browse for the printer all I get is Microsoft Windows Network in the list and no printer is listed. What am I doing wrong, why cant it find my printer which is set up for sharing? I am using XP SP3 -- Jim Salyer Area Supervisor Mobile 505-670-4138 Home 505-474-6768 Fax 5054744540 |
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Printer sharing
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writes: I have a home network setup and I bought a new printer so I want to share that printer with my laptop in another room but when I use the wizard to browse for the printer all I get is Microsoft Windows Network in the list and no printer is listed. What am I doing wrong, why cant it find my printer which is set up for sharing? I am using XP SP3 Is it a network printer, or a USB (or parallel, but it won't be parallel if it's a new one) that is connected to a particular PC? If the latter, have you enabled printer sharing on that PC? If so, and the PC to which the printer is connected is called Fred, then entering \\fred\ into the run box on another PC on the network will work. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** Is Jimi Hendrix's modem a Purple Hayes? |
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