Subj : Re: printer sharing
To   : JOHNNY BOWEN
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Sat Nov 20 2004 10:40 am

-=> JOHNNY BOWEN wrote to BJ”RN FORSSTR”M <=-

 JB> Hi,

 -> It's just to share your printer on the desktop and install the
 -> printer-softwhare
 -> on the laptop and set the printer as a network printer. It should be as 
easy
 JB> as
 -> that.

 JB> So, the printer drivers need to be installed on the laptop?

 You will need printer drivers on the laptop... but in most cases, when you 
first locate the printer across the network, Windows offers to copy over the 
drivers from the printer-sharing system. This doesn't always work-- 
particularly if you've got very different operating system versions on the two 
systems, but it can be a real time-and-effort saver.

From our e-mail follow-up on this thread-- particularly from the information 
that you can't ping the desktop from the laptop, I suspect your router's 
firewall is blocking peer-to-peer networking.

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