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Mike Schumacher
I have used shared printers successfully many times in
win95, and win98 but alway with parallel port printers.
I just created a wireless network at home and I can
communicate between machines and use the shared modem on
one computer to surf the net from the other computer.
This is with my home computer and my work laptop, both
have Win xp Pro.
I can also access the shared HP 1012 printer from the
other computer using "network places" over the network
because I browsed for it and found it when intalling the
printer.
The problem is that I can't get anything to print over
the network. All other file sharing and communications
over the network are working fine.
In the past when I networked printers the port listed on
the host computer would be the parallel port and the port
listed on the other computer would alway look like this (
\\home-computer\HP-Laserjet )
But this time with win XP and a HP LaserJet 1012 (USB
connection) the port listed on both the host computer and
the networked computer is DOT4_001 and I can't modify it
at all.
I would think that it should be possible to network a
printer on a host computer in which the printer has a USB
connection since most new printers have a USB connection.
Thanks for all your help
Mike
win95, and win98 but alway with parallel port printers.
I just created a wireless network at home and I can
communicate between machines and use the shared modem on
one computer to surf the net from the other computer.
This is with my home computer and my work laptop, both
have Win xp Pro.
I can also access the shared HP 1012 printer from the
other computer using "network places" over the network
because I browsed for it and found it when intalling the
printer.
The problem is that I can't get anything to print over
the network. All other file sharing and communications
over the network are working fine.
In the past when I networked printers the port listed on
the host computer would be the parallel port and the port
listed on the other computer would alway look like this (
\\home-computer\HP-Laserjet )
But this time with win XP and a HP LaserJet 1012 (USB
connection) the port listed on both the host computer and
the networked computer is DOT4_001 and I can't modify it
at all.
I would think that it should be possible to network a
printer on a host computer in which the printer has a USB
connection since most new printers have a USB connection.
Thanks for all your help
Mike