Trouble sharing a printer across an XP network
Hello All, I have a wireless network using two machines that run Windows XP Pro and Windows XP home. There is no problem getting the client machine, the one running Home Edition to have an Internet connection. I would like to be able to send documents to the host machines printer. Here is the problem: When I run the network setup Wizard on the XP Pro machine it invariably wants to use the 1394 connection to be the one that is shared. The other two options are the Marvell ethernet controllers only one of which is in use. When I am prompted to make a network disk I only have five options to store the data created by the wizard. The first is the floppy drive, and the next four are memory card slots on a card reader. The program doesn't show me either one of my two optical drives so I can't make a CD. The problem is the client machine has no such card reader or a floppy drive!When I run the network setup Wizard on the Home machine, and try to save the network settings it tells me that there is no optical drive installed when in fact it does have a CD burner!At one point I was able to share the printer, but unfortunately I made the mistake of deleting the printer from the client machine, which in turn removed it from the host machine. Now no matter what I do I can't get this sharing to operate again.I have also tried turning off the "online armor" firewall on both machines to no avail. At one point looking under the firewall configurations I was able to see the host machine appear on the client, and vice versa. Now I can't do anything, I don't even know that if I was able to make a network disk that it would solve the problem.I am at a loss as to what to do next if anyone has any ideas I would be most appreciative. Please try and keep your directions relatively simple as it's obvious I am having no luck doing what I am doing.Thanks in advance for any help!Tinsby1 person got this answerI do too
November 18th, 2010 3:54pm

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