sharing a printer

[Brian Quirion]

Hello. I'm trying to share a printer on my home network.
I have an HP PSC 1210 connected via USB to a machine
running XP home with the latest updates.
Ive clicked share this printer in its properties. Yet
i cannot see the printer from any other machine on my
network.
Let me describe the home network.
Cable modem ->dhcp->airport.
The airport then assigs dhcp addresses to the machines
at home including this xp machine. All my windows machines
have wireless cards.
They all connect via dhcp from the airport.
I have 2 XP home machines (one with the printer attached)
and one XP pro machine.
But i cannot see the printer from any but the machine that
its attatched to.

 

[Knoj]

Hello. I'm trying to share a printer on my home network.
I have an HP PSC 1210 connected via USB to a machine
running XP home with the latest updates.
Ive clicked share this printer in its properties. Yet
i cannot see the printer from any other machine on my
network.
Let me describe the home network.
Cable modem ->dhcp->airport.
The airport then assigs dhcp addresses to the machines
at home including this xp machine. All my windows machines
have wireless cards.
They all connect via dhcp from the airport.
I have 2 XP home machines (one with the printer attached)
and one XP pro machine.
But i cannot see the printer from any but the machine that
its attatched to.

Did you install the printer on your other machines? Even though it's
attached to one XP machine it needs to be "installed" on the other
machines.

1. open "Control Panel"
2. open "Printers and Faxes"
3. open "Add a printer"
4. Run the wizard to install your networked printer.

This process needs to happen on all networked machines that you want to
access the printer.