Sharing printers on home network with Wi-Fi

[Guest]

I am having a problem sharing printers in my home network with my laptop that
has 802.11b/g. I have turned on all sharing, as best I can tell, and I can
print documents from my laptop to printer(s) attached to my main home PC via
the home network ... when connected via ethernet. But when I try it via
Wi-Fi, it does not work. My Wi-Fi from the laptop talks to a Cisco 340
Aironet access point, which in turn is connected via ethernet to the same
Linksys router that I use to connect in the laptop via ethernet and also my
main home PC. I cannot see any other settings that could be set in error for
Wi-Fi but I'm missing something. I could swear it was working via Wi-Fi
before I upgraded to Service Pack 2 on XP Pro but I could be wrong. Neither
MS or HP has been able to help me so far.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Wireless Print Server
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I am having a problem sharing printers in my home network with my laptop that
| has 802.11b/g. I have turned on all sharing, as best I can tell, and I can
| print documents from my laptop to printer(s) attached to my main home PC via
| the home network ... when connected via ethernet. But when I try it via
| Wi-Fi, it does not work. My Wi-Fi from the laptop talks to a Cisco 340
| Aironet access point, which in turn is connected via ethernet to the same
| Linksys router that I use to connect in the laptop via ethernet and also my
| main home PC. I cannot see any other settings that could be set in error for
| Wi-Fi but I'm missing something. I could swear it was working via Wi-Fi
| before I upgraded to Service Pack 2 on XP Pro but I could be wrong. Neither
| MS or HP has been able to help me so far.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

See if Ron Pacchiano's article helps:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030619.shtml

 

[Guest]

I guess you're saying it is necessary to have a print server when trying to
connect from a laptop wireless to a printer(s). I don't understand why this
is needed, when it's working flawlessly from the same laptop through the same
router/main PC when using ethernet. I don't see any inherent differences
between using Wi-Fi to connect from the laptop to the router than using
ethernet for the same purpose. I'm thinking I am missing some setting, or XP
SP2 puts in new wireless security safeguards that I'm not aware of, or
something. I can do the print server if really needed, but it seems
unecessary if XP is doing its job to share resources.