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Old May 11th 17, 05:18 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Steve Hayes[_2_]
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I recently bought a new Brother printer and connected it to my XP
machine.

But when my wife wanted to print something, she could no longer see my
computer on the network.

It was fine with our previous Samsung printer, which died. Her
computer is runnin Windows 8.1.

Now I find that I can't see any other computers on our LAN.

When I try to fix it, I get a message saying that I do not have
permission to connect to the other and I must ask the Administrator,

I AM the administrator, so what to I do?

Four computers on the network can see each other fine, but my XP
machine that has the printer attached, is inviduible to the others,
and them to it.

Why would it stop working?


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Old May 11th 17, 06:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
No_Name
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Default LAN Connections in XP

On Thu, 11 May 2017 06:18:23 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

I recently bought a new Brother printer and connected it to my XP
machine.

But when my wife wanted to print something, she could no longer see my
computer on the network.

It was fine with our previous Samsung printer, which died. Her
computer is runnin Windows 8.1.

Now I find that I can't see any other computers on our LAN.

When I try to fix it, I get a message saying that I do not have
permission to connect to the other and I must ask the Administrator,

I AM the administrator, so what to I do?

Four computers on the network can see each other fine, but my XP
machine that has the printer attached, is inviduible to the others,
and them to it.

Why would it stop working?


Try a "repair connection"
StartSettingsnetwork connections and right click your network
connection. Select repair.

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Old May 12th 17, 09:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Ben Myers[_9_]
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Default LAN Connections in XP

"Steve Hayes" wrote in message ...
I recently bought a new Brother printer and connected it to my XP
machine.
But when my wife wanted to print something, she could no longer see my
computer on the network.
It was fine with our previous Samsung printer, which died. Her
computer is runnin Windows 8.1.
Now I find that I can't see any other computers on our LAN.
When I try to fix it, I get a message saying that I do not have
permission to connect to the other and I must ask the Administrator,
I AM the administrator, so what to I do?
Four computers on the network can see each other fine, but my XP
machine that has the printer attached, is inviduible to the others,
and them to it.
Why would it stop working?
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com


Click "Start", "Run", type "control firewall.cpl" into the "Open" box
and click "OK". Then click on the "Exceptions" tab and make sure
that "File and Print Sharing" is checked. If not, check it and click "OK".
Please note the period between "firewall" and "cpl".

Ben
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Old May 13th 17, 12:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bob F[_2_]
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Default LAN Connections in XP

On 5/10/2017 9:18 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
I recently bought a new Brother printer and connected it to my XP
machine.

But when my wife wanted to print something, she could no longer see my
computer on the network.

It was fine with our previous Samsung printer, which died. Her
computer is runnin Windows 8.1.

Now I find that I can't see any other computers on our LAN.

When I try to fix it, I get a message saying that I do not have
permission to connect to the other and I must ask the Administrator,

I AM the administrator, so what to I do?

Four computers on the network can see each other fine, but my XP
machine that has the printer attached, is inviduible to the others,
and them to it.

Why would it stop working?



I've seem my XP media PC in the basement lose communications with my win
7 PC a couple times. It turned out my Norton Security Suite on the Win 7
PC had crashed. Restarted it, and everything worked correctly again.

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Old May 13th 17, 01:04 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Steve Hayes[_2_]
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Default LAN Connections in XP

On Fri, 12 May 2017 16:42:31 -0400, "Ben Myers"
wrote:

Click "Start", "Run", type "control firewall.cpl" into the "Open" box
and click "OK". Then click on the "Exceptions" tab and make sure
that "File and Print Sharing" is checked. If not, check it and click "OK".
Please note the period between "firewall" and "cpl".


Thanks.

Yes, it's checked.


--
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com
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Old May 13th 17, 01:57 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Ben Myers[_9_]
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Default LAN Connections in XP

"Steve Hayes" wrote in message ...
On Fri, 12 May 2017 16:42:31 -0400, "Ben Myers"
wrote:
Click "Start", "Run", type "control firewall.cpl" into the "Open" box
and click "OK". Then click on the "Exceptions" tab and make sure
that "File and Print Sharing" is checked. If not, check it and click "OK".
Please note the period between "firewall" and "cpl".

Thanks.
Yes, it's checked.
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com


Click "Start", "Run", type "control netconnections" into the "Open" box
and click "OK". Find the ethernet connection, right-click, select "Properties"
and make sure that "File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks" is
checked.

Ben
 




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