Network printers

[baylok]

Anyone have any advice on setting up a network printer? I have a wireless network in the house, and I want to print something from my laptop (running Win2000) on the printer connected to my desktop (running XP Home).

Would another solution be to use a dedicated, wireless printserver?

Also, help with file sharing between the 2 machines would be greatly appreciated. I plan on playing around with this tomorrow, and don't want to waste the entire morning on it.

 

[baylok]

It's amazing how simmple things are when the directions are followed, and the details attended to...

I must have had a slight dyslexic moment when I last tinkered with this as the workgroup on my laptop machine had 2 letters transposed. Fixed it, and all works well.

 

[Vic C.]

Aah, the simplest way of doing this is to hang (connect) the printer off your desktop PC. (Which you already did) Now set up the printer to share. (printer properties/sharing tab). Go to security tab (in printer properties) and make sure laptop user is set up as user on XP pc and give user 'Print' permissions. That's it. :D

 

[baylok]

I had done that in the past. The problem I had was the workgroup on computer A was ABCD, and the workgroup on computer B was ABDC. I guess windows doesn't do dyslexia...