Re: Printer Sharing and a Wireless Laptop

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John Thomas Smith Wrote:
> Recently changed from dialup to dsl modem for 2 desktop PC's
> running WinXP... dsl modem supplied by telco has 1 out, so
> bought a linksys 4 port router to connect to the 1 out of
> dsl modem, then PC's connected to 2 ports... all works well
>
> Now, have ordered a laptop for wife... have telco instructions
> on how to activate the 802.11b/g wireless in their modem, and
> the HP laptop website says there is a "wireless wizard" on the
> HP laptop to make it work with the wireless dsl modem I have
>
> One thing I am NOT clear about is printer sharing and how I do
> the setup so she may click "print" on the laptop and have it
> work with the printer connected to her desktop
>
> I know I have to go on her desktop and enable printer sharing,
> and I then "should" be able to create a "printer connection"
> on the laptop, aed printer instend tell it to use a sharad of
> installing a printer driver on the laptop... is that correct?
>
> BUT... when I connected her computer to the router for a dsl
> connection, I do not remember ever indicating anywhere that a
> NETWORK connection was being made, unless that is the default
> for what I did and I just did not know that
>
> Is there anything I've missed?
>
> John Thomas Smith
> http://www.direct2usales.com
> http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith

Let me see if I have all the facts here:

-You have two computers hooked up to a Linksys router connected with a
DSL connection.
-You got a laptop with a wireless NIC
-You want your wireless laptop to be able to print to the printer,
which is connected to one of the desktop PCs

Its pretty much simple stuff. Have your laptop join in on the same
Workgroup as the other two PCs, which also should be under the same
workgroup name. With that done, your three computers should be on the
same network and can share files and printers with each other. You
should also make a user account on the PC which has the printer
installed to match with the user account your wife uses on her laptop.
For example, if you wife has an account name of laptopuser and her
password was laptop, create an account in the PC with that exact same
information. Also, in order for her laptop to be able to print to the
printer, the PC with the printer installed must also be logged on
because this is a workgroup and you probably don't have a printer
server installed.

However, I am not sure of your comments in your last paragraph about
plugging in her laptop to the router. Also, is it your DSL modem having
the wireless capabilities or your Linksys router because I have not
heard of a cable/dsl modem with wireless capabilities. But maybe thats
just my lack of knowledge. Usually, your DSL modem connects to the
Linksys router, which also acts as a Wireless Router, if you brought
the correct type of course. Good luck.


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