Establishing a network in order to enable wireless printing

[Guest]

I'm completely new to all of this, but I recently purchased a laptop and
would like to establish a network in order to share the printer with the
desktop. I've completed both the network and wireless wizards in XP.
However, although the laptop works fine on the wireless network, I'm unable
to access the other network. The desktop (host) recognized the laptop, but
the laptop does not recognize the desktop. What can I do to rectify this? I
have a Linksys wireless router. I've tried disabling the firewall, but that
doesn't seem to work. Can someone please offer some suggestions? Is there a
setting somewhere that I'm missing? Thanks.

 

[Chuck]

I'm completely new to all of this, but I recently purchased a laptop and
would like to establish a network in order to share the printer with the
desktop. I've completed both the network and wireless wizards in XP.
However, although the laptop works fine on the wireless network, I'm unable
to access the other network. The desktop (host) recognized the laptop, but
the laptop does not recognize the desktop. What can I do to rectify this? I
have a Linksys wireless router. I've tried disabling the firewall, but that
doesn't seem to work. Can someone please offer some suggestions? Is there a
setting somewhere that I'm missing? Thanks.

Daniell,

You are talking about "the firewall" on one of the computers? Which one?
Disabling is not always the best solution anyway.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>

What do you mean by "does not recognise"? Is this "cannot see in Network
Neighborhood"?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#Browser>

If not a firewall or browser problem, provide more details, and we'll diagnose
the problem.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>