Hi,
I've tried this numerous times and I can't get it to work. Hope
someone here can help.
I have a desktop and a laptop computer both running WinXP Home
edition. I have one printer that I'd like both puters to be able to
use to print with. I have a Linksys wireless router set up and the
two puters share this connection for Internet just fine. But I can't
get the laptop to use the printer. I get error messages every time I
try ... something about not being able to connect or similar as I
recall ... error msg text is found later in this post.
I first set up a network connection when I had a firewire cable
running from the laptop to the desktop. On the laptop I could only
view the external hard drive and *not* my desktop hard drive. I
don't know why because I had the fw cable plugged into the desktop
and not the external drive. Well, I deleted that connection as I'm
trying to do this wireless-ly. Maybe my problem is this ... must I
have a wireless printer to make this work?
I do have my desktop set up to share the printer. I did the
networking thing on the desktop, made a floppy to set up the network
on the laptop. Put that floppy in and double clicked the network.exe
file (or whatever it was called) supposedly to network the two
puters. I'm showing a wireless connection in my laptop tray as being
in working order.
From what I can tell with my limited knowledge this should be
working but it's not. The printer does not show up in the printer
selection window on the laptop so I cannot select my Canon printer to
print to. Error message when I try to find the printer is:
"Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was
not typed correctly (I checked I'm typing in the right name) or the
specified printer has lost it's connection to the server. For more
info click HELP."
Well, I don't have a server set up, just two computers so to me that
last part makes no sense.
What am I missing?
I also need to understand something. I cannot see my desktop on my
laptop even with the firewire cable connected. IF I can ever get
this set up to work, am I not supposed to be able to access all
programs/files that are on my desktop from my laptop so that I can
work from my laptop via the desktop? Or am I misunderstanding this
networking thing?
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