On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 22:18:43 -0400, you wrote:
Bernie You seem to be making a rod for your own back! Don't present problems where there isn't any. If only you, your partner and a guest use this printer and you actually trust each other then use Simple File Sharing on the machines and make sure the computer connected to the printer is actually switched on. >On 6 Aug 2006 at 22:01, Bernie Cosell wrote: > >> I would like to share that system's printer with the other computers >> around her [my and my wife's laptops and my wife's desktop, at the >> least]. >> >> So far, I cannot find a way to do that that doesn't seem to require that >> I go through a dialogue that asks me for my admin password. > >I neglected to give the network that's connecting them together. I know >*exactly*zero* about all this strange windows-networking stuff. [and >indeed, worse comes to worse, I'll see if I can find a *real* >lineprinterserver [using LPR or some such] and not bother with window's >sharing... :o)]]. My systems are all set up with wireless cards and for >the most part wireless to the Linksys [and from there to the Direcway >box, as needed]. Don't know a thing about workgroups or domains or any >of that other microsoft-like networking stuff [which is likely why I >can't get the print-serving to work...:o)] > > /Bernie\ > >-- >Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA > --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- Sir Hugh of Bognor -- Remember. You may honestly believe that you understood everything you thought I said but what you thought you heard wasn't exactly what I said. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] E38 Bognor Regis, W.Sussex, England, UK -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
