Wireless Sharing of Printers Issue

I am trying to share my printers connected to my home pc with my laptop over a wireless network. Network appears to be set up properly and I can ping each computer from the other. However, I cannot see any "shared" folders and I cannot see the shared printers from the laptop. My home pc is hardwired to a D-Link DI-624 wireless router. I use Windows XP Pro on both home pc and laptop and my internet connection is via Verizon FIOS. I have disabled windows firewall, as I am using Norton Systemworks firewall/anti-virus software. Any solutions would be greatly appreciated.

 

How are you connecting your printer to the network? If your printer has a ethernet port, then you just have to configure the IP address and sharing is set up through (doing this from memory, so it may be a bit off) Control Panel>Printers>Add Printer>Network Printers>Browse (or know exactly) IP>Select>Confirm>Print Test Page.

If you are using a USB print server that essentially 'converts' the USB to CAT5, which it attached to the router, then you need to make sure that the external server is working. You need to do a couple of things - A/C power, a driver, and a lot of testing.

 

You have to make sure the printer on the network is shared. On the comp. w/ the printer connected to it, go to Start-Printers; right-click on the printer you want to share, click on "sharing" in the drop down menu and then "share this printer" If it's already shared then make sure all the comps on your network are part of the same workgroup.

 

Both printers are connected to the home computer via USB. Both are set to "share" under Windows. Both computers are part of the same workgroup.

 

Then it's probably a firewall issue. I'd first try using the add a printer wizard and see if you can locate the printer. If you can't, turn off the firewall on both computers and see what happens.

 

It is most definitely a firewall issue. Had the same problem with McAfee Firewall. OP needs to ensure that the ip of the laptop is an allowed ip to connect to the desktop and vice versa. After that is done there shoudl be no problem connecting to the printer

 

How do you do that, how do you see if the laptop is an allowed

 

You should beable to go to trusted sites-app-ip etc of some sort in your firewall configuration and type in the ip address of your laptop and do the same for the pc if you go to the start menu scoll to run and type in cmd,then ipconfig/all you can get the ip addresses of both---- if you don't already know how to do this, hope this helps you.