Problem printing on a printer connected to another PC on a home network?
If you’re having problems printing on a printer that is connected to another PC on a home netork, there are three things that you can try:
- If you have just added the PC that is connected to the printer, try running the Netork Setup Wizard on all of the other machines on the network to make sure that they are able to see the other PC. Make sure you reboot all PC’s after you run the wizard on each PC.
- If a firewall is running, try disabling it, or setting it to allow the sharing of files and printers (Sygate is a great firewall for this type of setup). If you do not have a third-party firewall running, you may have the native Windows XP firewall running. Disable it if need be.
- If you can see the PC that the printer is connected to in My Network Places, then double-click on that PC and then double-click on the printer to which you are trying to print.
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