networking a usb printer

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I have two PC's, one running XP Home and one running XP Pro.
They are networked through a wired DLink switch.
ICS works fine.
How do I share a USB installed printer installed on the XP Home printer to
the XP Pro printer?
 
You can use the Network Setup Wizard to configure this. That can be
found in your Network Connections folder in the Control Panel.
 
I thought I had found the answer from the link you provided. The article
talked about having the ICF acitve on the LAN connections would cause
problems. That wasn't the problem. ICS is working fine.

I can ping from the 192.168.0.1 PC to the 192.168.0.2 but not the other way
around. When I try to access all of the PC's in my workgroup, it displays
them on the 192.168.0.2 PC but you cannot view anything on the other PC.
When I try to access other computers in the same workgroup from the
192.168.0.1 computer it displays an error that states I do not have
permissions to view other PC's in the Family workgroup (family is then name
of the workgroup both PC's are members of).

Any ideas?

Paul Porter

Cari (MS MVP) said:
http://www.coribright.com/Windows/Article Five.htm
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Are the hard drives shared (if you want to be able to share files).

If you do not want to share the files and folders, just the printer, then on
the PC with the printer attached, follow Bruce Sanderson's article at:
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm
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Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

Paul Porter said:
I thought I had found the answer from the link you provided. The article
talked about having the ICF acitve on the LAN connections would cause
problems. That wasn't the problem. ICS is working fine.

I can ping from the 192.168.0.1 PC to the 192.168.0.2 but not the other
way
around. When I try to access all of the PC's in my workgroup, it displays
them on the 192.168.0.2 PC but you cannot view anything on the other PC.
When I try to access other computers in the same workgroup from the
192.168.0.1 computer it displays an error that states I do not have
permissions to view other PC's in the Family workgroup (family is then
name
of the workgroup both PC's are members of).

Any ideas?

Paul Porter
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The links you sent didn't work but I did find an entry in the Windows\XP New
users group that did work. Once I installed IPX protocol on both computers,
everything is working. I can share files and the USB printer.

Paul P.
 
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