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LAN Connections in XP
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 |
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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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"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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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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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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"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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