Re: Frustrated beyond comprehension..printing over wireless network

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In article <prleg21lqgu4sa9dt93avo7g67p4pov0lk@xxxxxxx>, Jerome Ranch
says...

1) Is it just one machine that can't see the rest or are non of them
able to see each other?


The main desktop is cabled into a cable modem, and there a d-link
wireless router in the chain


A long long time ago I set up the desktop to see the one laptop,
wirelessly. It sees the C drive of the laptop and I can print from
the desktop to the printer attached to the laptop.


BUT the laptop with the printer cannot see the desktop,
and no other laptops in the house can see any other machine, nor can
the desktop see any other laptop.

The wireless works flawlessly for the internet for all the machines


2) Have you gone to Control Panel, Windows Firewall, Exceptions and
made sure the File And Printer Sharing is ticked as well as allowing it
on any third party firewall on all the computers?

Done..it was set that way already


3)If all the above is OK, if you go to Start, Run, and then type in
\\<ip address of target computer with the printer on>, i.e:

\\192.168.0.3

does an explorer Window eventually open showing the shares on that
machine?


No, I get an error, windows can find any of the machines
(192.168.0.100, 101, 102 103 etc etc)

Turn off all the firewalls on all the machines...you'll be OK as the
NAT in the router/cable modem will protect you from incoming
connections.

Can you ping each machine from the other?


Assuming you can, try going into the Properties of the network
connections, select TCP/IP protocol and Properties, then Advanced, then
WINStab and make sure Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled.

Bloody XP networking is well broken. I stuck 98 on a laptop for my son
and it found all the shares on my LAN pretty much instantly and could
browse them far quicker than XP.

I've been trialling Vista and it doesn't get any better.

--
Conor

I'm really a nice guy. If I had friends, they would tell you.
.

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