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Trouble Setting up Laptop to Share Newtork Printer
Hi All,
I am having some problems setting up my step-mothers laptop so that she can print on our home network printer. We have an HP LaserJet 5, and there are two other computers in our home network - one in my room, and one in my brother's room. The printer is connected to the computer in my room, and I have connected my brothers computer so that it can print on the printer as well, so it should not be hard to do the same for my step-mother's laptop. I think the problem is arising because she works for a big company, and it seems that they have configured the computer to only look in the company network when adding a computer. When I use the wizard to do a search, it does not look in my home work network, but only the work directory. I suspect that there is a file that the wizard is referring to which has been modified to only look in the work networks. Can anyone help me with this problem, and perhaps help me to locate the file (if it exists) that is stopping the computer from looking outside of the work network? At the moment, my step-mother's laptop is succesfully sharing the home network internet connection, but although I am not 100% sure, I don't think that she can share files between her laptop and mine or my brothers computer. Thanks in advance, Ilan |
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Trouble Setting up Laptop to Share Newtork Printer
Hi,
You really need to ask this in the networking newsgroup. It sounds like it's still looking for the Domain and it needs to look for the Workgroup instead. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "ilan" wrote in message ups.com... Hi All, I am having some problems setting up my step-mothers laptop so that she can print on our home network printer. We have an HP LaserJet 5, and there are two other computers in our home network - one in my room, and one in my brother's room. The printer is connected to the computer in my room, and I have connected my brothers computer so that it can print on the printer as well, so it should not be hard to do the same for my step-mother's laptop. I think the problem is arising because she works for a big company, and it seems that they have configured the computer to only look in the company network when adding a computer. When I use the wizard to do a search, it does not look in my home work network, but only the work directory. I suspect that there is a file that the wizard is referring to which has been modified to only look in the work networks. Can anyone help me with this problem, and perhaps help me to locate the file (if it exists) that is stopping the computer from looking outside of the work network? At the moment, my step-mother's laptop is succesfully sharing the home network internet connection, but although I am not 100% sure, I don't think that she can share files between her laptop and mine or my brothers computer. Thanks in advance, Ilan |
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Trouble Setting up Laptop to Share Newtork Printer
i think i am having the same prob with ilan - or maybe close enough... i only
have two computers a desktop and a wireless laptop... both are connected to a linksys router and the internet connection works fine.. but when i try to setup a home network... it just wont work... and when i try to ping the desktop from the laptop its giving me request timeout which means they are not seing each other... for the record ive tried running the network setup wizard on both computers and installed the netsetup file on the laptop and set the printer to shared please i badly need help... God bless, "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: Hi, You really need to ask this in the networking newsgroup. It sounds like it's still looking for the Domain and it needs to look for the Workgroup instead. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "ilan" wrote in message ups.com... Hi All, I am having some problems setting up my step-mothers laptop so that she can print on our home network printer. We have an HP LaserJet 5, and there are two other computers in our home network - one in my room, and one in my brother's room. The printer is connected to the computer in my room, and I have connected my brothers computer so that it can print on the printer as well, so it should not be hard to do the same for my step-mother's laptop. I think the problem is arising because she works for a big company, and it seems that they have configured the computer to only look in the company network when adding a computer. When I use the wizard to do a search, it does not look in my home work network, but only the work directory. I suspect that there is a file that the wizard is referring to which has been modified to only look in the work networks. Can anyone help me with this problem, and perhaps help me to locate the file (if it exists) that is stopping the computer from looking outside of the work network? At the moment, my step-mother's laptop is succesfully sharing the home network internet connection, but although I am not 100% sure, I don't think that she can share files between her laptop and mine or my brothers computer. Thanks in advance, Ilan |
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