Want to setup Printer Sharing, please help

[cfowler]

I have an XP desktop with printer installed and want my Vista Laptop to be able to use the desktop's printer. Can someone please give me some insight? Thanks,

 

[Joan Archer]

Have you made the printer on the XP machine shared, can you see the XP machine from the Vista one on a network.?
Make sure that your firewall is allowing it through.
Have you had a look in the Tutorials to see if there is anything there that will help, sorry but I don't have a link handy to give you at the moment

 

[cfowler]

the printer on the xp-based desktop is set to 'shared' but my vista laptop cannot find the printer when 'searching'

 

[johngalt]

Can your laptop see the XP machine at all on your network?

In addition, what type of connections are each machine using? Can you describe your network setup?

 

[cfowler]

No my laptop cannot see my desktop. I guess I'm hoping for some instructions on setting my desktop to share and to start a shared printer connection. Both my desktop and laptop connect wirelessly to a secondary linksys router which runs off the main 2Wire router.

 

[johngalt]

The hard part is that it is a chore, at even the best of times. there have been numerous complaints about one not seeing the other for whatever reason.