Printer sharing

[golfer John]

I am trying to make a wireless printer connected to my Vista PC a shared
printer on the network. The two other pc's are running XP home. The router
is a2wire 1800 gateway. One pc has a 2-wire card, the other has a LINKSYS
card. The machine with the 2wire card can see the whole network but does not
seem to know what the printer is. The machine with the LINKSYS card cannot
see the network; I get a message to use WZC but cannot find the program.
When I try to define the shared printer on the 2wire PC, the add a printer
wizard cannot find the printer.
-how can I get WZC so i can run it?
-Why can't windows XP on the 2wire computer see the printer?

 

[Jack [MVP-Networking]]

Hi
It is Not clear how the scheme of Wire and wireless works on your Network.
If the printer is Wireless and Network capable it should be connected to the
Wireless Router and than it become a network printer that can be accessed to
all computers (provided you install the printer's drives on each computer.
If the printer is Not network capable and you want to connect it to specific
computer as Wireless, the computer need two Network card, one for the
printer and one for connecting the computer in question to the Router.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

 

[golfer John]

I have made further progress. Using 'My Network Places' I have been able to
get the printer recognized on one of the XP machines and then was able to
define the shared printer - it appears as a valid printer on the print screen
when printing from this XP machine. However, there is an error (I cannot
get an error message) and it fails to print but is left in the printer queue.
Any thoughts?

 

[golfer John]

I have finally got it working. I decided that the problem was the printer
driver since in this scheme it was downloaded from the Vista machine. I
deleted the printer form the XP machine and then used the printer cd to load
all the printer software to the XP machine (since this is an all-in-one
printer I felt I needed all the software, not just a printer driver).
Then I followed the directions in Windows Help (much simpler and easier than
'add-a-printer'):
Search for 'host computer'
double click host
double click printer
double click 'printers and faxes' to confirm printer was added
You are done
This assumes you have enabled printer sharing on the 'host computer'