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Offline pareshnavlakha

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Network between computers
« on: April 16, 2005, 10:24:29 PM »
Hi, i've just got a new Motorola wireless router, had a Netgear previously all the connections were working fine between 3 computers connected with a ethernet .
Here is the scenorio i have 2 desksktops running windows Xp professional (lets name them A & B) and a Laptop with windows Xp Home (lets name it C), A & B are connected through a ethernet while C is connected wirelessly. The printer is connected to B.
A is the main computer, B & C share internet connection.
The internet connection is fine but i cannot share file and printer connections between all 3 computers seemlessly, for the moment only B can access the shared folder of A, no other file/printer connections are working.
Please let me know what i need to do in order for all of them to work smoothly, thanks in advance for your input.
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Offline Radical Edward

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« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2005, 01:40:08 PM »
I have heard of this before, for some reason XP does not like to share out or use shared out printers. For my network which has 98 2000 Pro and XP Pro I came up with a different solution for sharing out the printer. Rather than conecting the printer directly to a box, you can spend around $40 USD at CompUSA and buy a "print server" it's essentially a small box that connects to your printer via USB cable and has an RJ-45 jack on it so it plugs directly into your network. You use the administration utility that comes with it assign it an IP on your domain and your in business. The downside to this is I had to connect the printer to each machine before hand to install the drivers as they did not want to auto detect from a networked address. Once done and connected to your network you simply go onto each machine and change the port of the printer to point to the location of the IP. To me $40 is less than wasting hours possibly days to come up with a solution. I have known people who have gotten the printer to work, but only for short periods and it is spotty at best.

Please follow up and let me know how you make out.
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Offline dakila

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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2005, 11:23:25 AM »
You can try several solutions here...
Just read them all, maybe one is the solution to your problem...

http://www.thetechguide.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9932
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