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can't see printer over network

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I have a network with wired xp machine to 3 com router. Have another PC(Win200) and a laptop(Win 98) both wireless. All works ok, can share documents, move stuff round network access internet etc. There's an Epsom Photo printer wired to the xp machine. I have set it to "shared", but I can't seem to see it or get to it from either of the other machines. I can print from xp machine ok. Any ideas?

Name: steigrafx
Date: July 9, 2005 at 14:56:14 Pacific

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Have you tried addressing it directly? Instead of browsing for the printer, enter this: \\computername\sharedprintername where computer name is the name of the computer the printer is attached to, and sharedprintername is the name you've given to the shared printer.

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check if you have a firewall on your xp. this could be blocking any connection to it. If so then you will have to configure it.

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