Wireless Printring?

[guns90]

Good Morning. I have a Linklsys WRT54GL v1.1 router connected to my computer. It's working fine with my children's computer in another room. Is it possible for me to set it up so that my children can print on a printer connected to my computer? Thanks Gary

 

[andy faith]

as long as that printer is shared on your computer and you have file and printer sharing enabled then all you need to do is add the printer on you childs computer and install the drivers for it and it should work

 

[guns90]

I'm kind of old and stupid when it comes to this kind of stuff, Any Faith. You need to help me a little more with this. I'm not even sure I know what you mean when you say " as long as that printer is shared on your computer and you have file and printer sharing enabled ". Sorry. Gary

 

[andy faith]

ok I'll do you a bit of a walkthrough then, hold on. you're using XP I assume?

 

[guns90]

Yes. XP (With all updates), HP Photosmart 8250

 

[adarsh]

go to network and sharing center under control panel. In network and sharing center, go to printer sharing and turn it on.

hope it works

 

[guns90]

please bare with me on this one Andy. I have a 'network connections' under my control panel. It says nothing about sharing.

 

[adarsh]

http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/01/enable-file-and-printer-sharing-on-xp.html

Try doing it now from this link

 

[andy faith]

double click on that, then right click on your Local Area Connection and look in the list for File and Printer Sharing For Microsoft Networks and make sure it's ticked

 

[guns90]

Okay, adarsh, I completed that checklist through step 7; however, I don't understand what it means by having to set a password in step 8.

 

[andy faith]

basically it means that you need to have a password on your account...but I never do step 7 or 8

 

[guns90]

Okay, so now I guess that all I have do what andy faith said and install the printer driver on the kid's computer, right?

 

[andy faith]

right, you'll need both computers on, then go to the kids computer and go to start -> Printers and faxes then on the sidebar click add new printer, follow the steps and when it asks if its a network or local printer click network and then find your pc on the network, double click on that and hopefully the printer should appear. Alternatively you could let it search for one? cant remember if you can do that. anyway, then it will ask for the driver

 

[andy faith]

there we go, choose network printer, then brows for printer, and hopefully find your computer in whatever workgroup you're in

 

[guns90]

Sorry about that, we just had a short power outage here. The Kid's computer is asking me for a specific name (ex: \\server\printer) or URL (http://server/printers/myprinter/printer/). How do I find out what that is?

 

[Geoff]

Sorry about that, we just had a short power outage here. The Kid's computer is asking me for a specific name (ex: \\server\printer) or URL (http://server/printers/myprinter/printer/). How do I find out what that is?

You should be able to browse under the "network places" folder, and select your computer, and then your printer. Given that the printer is being shared.