Printing when Firewall is enabled

[Guest]

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At home I have enabled the firewall seeting in XP on both my wifes computer and mine ( jsut got broadband and wanted to make sure we stay protected) and now she cannot print to my printer that she was able to print to before. Is there anyway to share my printer with her and still keep the firewall running

 

[Alan Morris\(MSFT\)]

Thanks for laying out this question so nicely.

You will need to enable the sharing ports on the computer hosting the
printer.


http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/ports.asp
How to Open Ports in the Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall



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Hi

At home I have enabled the firewall seeting in XP on both my wifes

computer and mine ( jsut got broadband and wanted to make sure we stay
protected) and now she cannot print to my printer that she was able to print
to before. Is there anyway to share my printer with her and still keep the
firewall running?

 

[Guest]

Hi

THanks alot for this, it works now.


Mike