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Home Network question.
Hi,
I have 2 desktop PCs. XP - connection to router is cable. W7 - connection is wireless. Both work well. I bought a new network printer. 1. created home network on XP named "HOME". 2. created home network on W7 named "HOME". 3. connected printer to XP via USB cable. 4. installed drivers, made it shared, named "Brother" - printer works well. 5. installed printer drivers on W7, made it shared, named "Brother". Problem - printer does not print from W7. I wonder if the home network is actually working. Am I suppose to see XP and the printer when I go to W7 network settings...? Because when I go to see what is on the network in W7, I do not see anything and the troubleshooting does not reveal any issues. Any advice...? Thank you, Boy. |
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Home Network question.
On 08/09/2010 2:13 PM, boy wrote:
Hi, I have 2 desktop PCs. XP - connection to router is cable. W7 - connection is wireless. Both work well. I bought a new network printer. 1. created home network on XP named "HOME". 2. created home network on W7 named "HOME". 3. connected printer to XP via USB cable. 4. installed drivers, made it shared, named "Brother" - printer works well. 5. installed printer drivers on W7, made it shared, named "Brother". Problem - printer does not print from W7. I wonder if the home network is actually working. Am I suppose to see XP and the printer when I go to W7 network settings...? Because when I go to see what is on the network in W7, I do not see anything and the troubleshooting does not reveal any issues. Any advice...? If it's a network printer (i.e. meaning that it's not directly attached to any one machine except through a network), then you don't have to make it "shared" as it is already shared by default. Chances are that the network printer is not designed for the new Windows 7-style networking, so you're going to have to make Windows 7 use it through a kludge. What you have to do actually is a little weird. You don't set up a network printer in W7, you setup a "local" printer connected through a network port. So basically when you're going through the add a printer wizard, you will choose "add local printer". You will then choose to "create a new port". Here you will then choose "standard tcp/ip port", and then type in the full printer share name, like "\\xpcomputer\xpprinter". Networking from Printer attached to Win XP PC to Win 7 - Windows 7 Forums http://www.sevenforums.com/network-s...c-win-7-a.html Yousuf Khan |
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Home Network question.
"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
... On 08/09/2010 2:13 PM, boy wrote: Hi, I have 2 desktop PCs. XP - connection to router is cable. W7 - connection is wireless. Both work well. I bought a new network printer. 1. created home network on XP named "HOME". 2. created home network on W7 named "HOME". 3. connected printer to XP via USB cable. 4. installed drivers, made it shared, named "Brother" - printer works well. 5. installed printer drivers on W7, made it shared, named "Brother". Problem - printer does not print from W7. I wonder if the home network is actually working. Am I suppose to see XP and the printer when I go to W7 network settings...? Because when I go to see what is on the network in W7, I do not see anything and the troubleshooting does not reveal any issues. Any advice...? If it's a network printer (i.e. meaning that it's not directly attached to any one machine except through a network), then you don't have to make it "shared" as it is already shared by default. Chances are that the network printer is not designed for the new Windows 7-style networking, so you're going to have to make Windows 7 use it through a kludge. What you have to do actually is a little weird. You don't set up a network printer in W7, you setup a "local" printer connected through a network port. So basically when you're going through the add a printer wizard, you will choose "add local printer". You will then choose to "create a new port". Here you will then choose "standard tcp/ip port", and then type in the full printer share name, like "\\xpcomputer\xpprinter". Networking from Printer attached to Win XP PC to Win 7 - Windows 7 Forums http://www.sevenforums.com/network-s...c-win-7-a.html Yousuf Khan I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on that. I have a Brother HL-2170W laser wireless printer running on my home network of 2 Desktops running XP and a Win 7 Netbook. I just installed the Brother printer on the Win 7 Netbook by clicking "add printer" in the Control Panel and then choosing to add a network printer. The Netbook searched wirelessly and found the HL-2170W laser printer, I selected it and clicked "next", the printer got installed and works just fine. |
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Home Network question.
"BR549" wrote in message ... "Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... On 08/09/2010 2:13 PM, boy wrote: Hi, I have 2 desktop PCs. XP - connection to router is cable. W7 - connection is wireless. Both work well. I bought a new network printer. 1. created home network on XP named "HOME". 2. created home network on W7 named "HOME". 3. connected printer to XP via USB cable. 4. installed drivers, made it shared, named "Brother" - printer works well. 5. installed printer drivers on W7, made it shared, named "Brother". Problem - printer does not print from W7. I wonder if the home network is actually working. Am I suppose to see XP and the printer when I go to W7 network settings...? Because when I go to see what is on the network in W7, I do not see anything and the troubleshooting does not reveal any issues. Any advice...? If it's a network printer (i.e. meaning that it's not directly attached to any one machine except through a network), then you don't have to make it "shared" as it is already shared by default. Chances are that the network printer is not designed for the new Windows 7-style networking, so you're going to have to make Windows 7 use it through a kludge. What you have to do actually is a little weird. You don't set up a network printer in W7, you setup a "local" printer connected through a network port. So basically when you're going through the add a printer wizard, you will choose "add local printer". You will then choose to "create a new port". Here you will then choose "standard tcp/ip port", and then type in the full printer share name, like "\\xpcomputer\xpprinter". Networking from Printer attached to Win XP PC to Win 7 - Windows 7 Forums http://www.sevenforums.com/network-s...c-win-7-a.html Yousuf Khan I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on that. I have a Brother HL-2170W laser wireless printer running on my home network of 2 Desktops running XP and a Win 7 Netbook. I just installed the Brother printer on the Win 7 Netbook by clicking "add printer" in the Control Panel and then choosing to add a network printer. The Netbook searched wirelessly and found the HL-2170W laser printer, I selected it and clicked "next", the printer got installed and works just fine. Yours worked simply because you have a wireless printer, and that's what your netbook discovered. What the sevenforums article refers to is a printer attached to an XP box, and accessing/printing to it from a Win7 PC. After messing around with mine for the better part of two days (my setup is very similar to the OP's setup), I came across Yousuf Khan's reply, tried it, and in 10 minutes or less was printing from all my computers to the same printer. If the OP and I had a wireless printer, we probably would have had the same experience as you, and wouldn't have posted here at all :-) -- SC Tom -There's no such thing as TMI when asking for tech support. P.S. Thank you, Yousuf, for your link!! |
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Home Network question.
On 11/09/2010 9:53 AM, SC Tom wrote:
Yours worked simply because you have a wireless printer, and that's what your netbook discovered. What the sevenforums article refers to is a printer attached to an XP box, and accessing/printing to it from a Win7 PC. After messing around with mine for the better part of two days (my setup is very similar to the OP's setup), I came across Yousuf Khan's reply, tried it, and in 10 minutes or less was printing from all my computers to the same printer. If the OP and I had a wireless printer, we probably would have had the same experience as you, and wouldn't have posted here at all :-) Also, I don't think it's only related to printers connected through Windows XP computers. When Microsoft brought out Windows 7, it upgraded the network sharing protocol known as SMB (aka Samba). They added all kinds of encryption and other stuff that wasn't there before. If a true network printer or a network print server box was designed before Windows 7 came out, then likely it only understands the earlier XP version of Samba. So you'd likely have to use the same method to connect those network printers as you would for an XP-connected printer. Yousuf Khan |
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Home Network question.
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http://www.ezlan.net/index.html#Networking -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "boy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have 2 desktop PCs. XP - connection to router is cable. W7 - connection is wireless. Both work well. I bought a new network printer. 1. created home network on XP named "HOME". 2. created home network on W7 named "HOME". 3. connected printer to XP via USB cable. 4. installed drivers, made it shared, named "Brother" - printer works well. 5. installed printer drivers on W7, made it shared, named "Brother". Problem - printer does not print from W7. I wonder if the home network is actually working. Am I suppose to see XP and the printer when I go to W7 network settings...? Because when I go to see what is on the network in W7, I do not see anything and the troubleshooting does not reveal any issues. Any advice...? Thank you, Boy. |
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