Hi Deb - Just catching up on email and not sure how you are doing on this, so I thought I would follow up.
If you... 1) Go to Start - Run - type in cmd (for command prompt) and type ping \\nameofdesktop, does it respond? If not, then you are not seeing it at all. If yes, then go to #2. 2) Open your Printers dialog, go to the address bar, and type in \\nameofdesktop. Does your shared printer show up? If so, can you right-click and choose "Connect"? If you connect, but the printer doesn't show up, then it's not being shared properly. Todd -----Original Message----- From: PBC Web Design [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 9:07 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: [wdvltalk] OT: sharing a printer isn't working 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? :: Deb :: http://www.puterbug.com :: Professional Web Design, SEO :: VPS Web Hosting Services :: Offlist eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude] ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: unknown lmsubst tag argument: '' To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
