Hello, Ive been trying to set up sharing for my printer but its not going to well. Heres the Spec Both Computer running XP Home Netgear Wireless Router DG834G Epson RX520 Wireless USB Stick. Ok Computer A is connected via Rj45 and Comp B is wireless. The Printer is connected via USB to Comp A. I have turned file and printer sharing on each PC, run all wizards possible, granted access via router to allow Comp B access Comp A. I really have no idea what else to do. Strange this is, when i click on View Workgroup Computers on Comp B it finds Comp A but cannot access it. On Comp A, when i click Workgroup Computers it just cannot access Family Workgroup (btw both are in the same workgroup). Has anyone got any ideas? Thanks, JT
Have you assigned an ip address for each pc, for example, pc1 = 192.168.0.1 pc2 = 192.168.0.2 Subnet = 255.255.255.0 Have you set up shared folders on each PC from your MY Computer window ?
What firewall are you running? This will need to be modified to "trust" the other PC (i.e. somewhere you can add the IP Address of the other PC to allow access) Are you sure Microsoft Printer and File Sharing is installed on both PCs? (check the network properties for this. I assume it is in place as you are mentioning the "same workgroup") Setup a single shared folder on each PC called "test" and share it as "test". Then try to do \\192.168.0.5\test from a run prompt. This will either let you straight into that shared folder, or will ask for a username and password. Are we talking XP Home or Professional? Have you sacraficed a chicken over the printer? This often helps
Have you shared the printer out in the Sharing tab of the print driver properties? Oh, and you can try going to Start, Run and typing \\192.168.0.5\insert printer name here And see what happens
"Service Pack 2" will not be causing you any networking problems. You need Service Pack 2 (it actually makes a huge improvement to WiFi for example). IMHO - The only people who don't use SP2 tend to be those with pirate copies of XP.
