Hi

I may have a problem that has been solved here before in general but I would like a specific hint.
I have a customer who would like to share a printer on his LAN. Here is the scenario:
Laptop1 XP Pro LAN-cabled to a DSL modem/router device from the telecom. HP Printer is plugged to the laptop.
Laptop2 is W2K over WLAN to the DSL modem/router
Laptop3 is my machine brought into the room for testing purposes with a WLAN adapter.

First I verified "sharing" was enabled on LT1 and then I set the HP printer to "shared" with a shared name on \\karin (LT1 name).

From my laptop I got onto their WLAN and got internet access w/o problem. I went to "printers", "add", "network", etc. and "found" the HP DeskJet 6L w/o problem plus the test shared folder I created on \\Karin Laptop.
On my machine when I open "My Computer" I "see" both customer machines and the sub-folders set for sharing.

Now for the fun part. No matter what I do I cannot get the w2k machine to find the printer. I get the canned message about wrong name or not attached to the server. When I open Network I "see" the 'Karin' laptop1 but when I click on it I get a rejected access message.
Can someone tell me what's wrong with this picture?
Thanks and regards
petervans

If you open the folders from your machine, do you see the shared printer in that folder? If you do, open the printer folder on your machine and drag and drop the printer to it.
If you don't see it, make sure that the printer folder on the fist laptop is shared properly and get the IP address if that machine. Then go back to your machine, click start, run and type in \\IP_address and press enter. You should see the printer folder. Open it and do what I said before w/ the dreg and drop.
As a side note, your machine can't find the printer possibly because you didn't check list in directory.

Make sure you have run through the network setup wizard on all machines, and you have chosen you connect to the internet through a residential gateway. On the machine that has the pritner to be shared, turn on file and print sharing.

Finally, make sure both machines have the same user names and passwords consistently.

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I have never used the network wizard yet and I've networked a lot of PCs and printers over the last 4 years or so.

So? :-)

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So, that's the end of the story. It's not needed.

If it gets it done right faster, use it.

Or not...

But I recommend either way for people not experienced with networking to use it.

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Hi everyone

Thanks for the input but I think maybe I did not explain the problem scenario very well.
The question is why can a "brought into the room" PC access the shared stuff without any effort, no name changing, no IP fumbling, etc.?
Simply "Add Printer" and tell the thing the HP printer is on the network PC \\karin and that's all it took. I must be overlooking something.
Regards
petervans

If that comptuer and the computer acting as the print server are configed for that, no reason it can't. However, I don't know that's the case here.

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Hi

That's the thing - it "should" work but doesn't and I cannot explain why my "external" brought-into-the-room laptop can "see" and access both customer laptops but they are only able to "see" but can't access each other....
petervans

Well, you can speculate, or you can do what I suggested.

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