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Name: dave m
Date: April 14, 2004 at 09:05:27 Pacific
OS: xp h pent 4
CPU/Ram: 256 ram
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I have been attempting to help my brother-in-law set up a laptop and a desktop to share a printer using a 2wire residential gateway. It is like the blind leading the blind. When going to the 2wire site they give you the directions for win 98, not xp. So we tried to figure things out in translation. We are at the point where the printer is seen by both computers, however when you try to print from the laptop to the printer the print job sits in the print queue for ever, and sometimes can't be deleted. Also two the print job printed after sitting in the queue for an hour before printing. I guess it has to be some setting I'm missing somewhere, but I just don't know where. Any suggestions would be apprediated



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Name: VeryCoolCat
Date: April 14, 2004 at 10:04:25 Pacific
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I am not completely knowledgable of Networks, but i believe i have some answers.

Whenever you share printers you usually got to set up a network. Having the laptop log onto the network of the desktop.

Also some printers have problems networking correctly. LEXMARK brand printers for example. Check the maker.

And YOU DID turn on file/print sharing?


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