Can't share printer anymore

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I have two computes in my home. One has a wireless router, the other an adapter. For over fifteen months, I've been happily connecting to the Internet from the one with adapter and using a shared printer that is directly connected to the PC with the router. Both run Windows XP. I recently was having trouble getting to the Internet from the remote system, and after trying several things, including setting up WEP for the router, and copying a running a special file that the Linksys software created for the remote computer, I was able to use the Internet on the remote computer without a hitch. Now, however, the printer that I've been sharing for months is unreachable by the remote computer. I looked at the printer settings on it. It complained the print spooler was not running. I went to the computer that has the printer and the router and made sure the print spooler properties were the way I wanted them. Then I returned to the remote computer and attempted to set print spooler properties. That went okay but I then got an error message that the print spooler program was not running. The printer showed that it could not be connected to. I decided to delete the printer and add it back.

Well, even though the remote computer can get to the Internet, it cannot find the shared printer at all. WHy would it be able to do that fine for fifteen months but now nt be able to do so? Thanks.

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