Re: Sharing printers on home network with Wi-Fi

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:30:18 -0600

Wireless Print Server
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Various Print Servers
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 "Bob Sweet" wrote:
| 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.

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