Help with Sharing a Printer on a Network

I have a network printer on a Windows 2000 computer. It's set to share, each computer is set to share, and the computers are on the same internet connection and in the same workgroup. I am trying to get an XP laptop to connect to the printer and it doesn't seem to find the other computer at all. Does anyone know what needs to be done?

 

Have you done network setup at your XP laptop?

I think you may post what you have done and tried, then people here can get more details about it, and probably will give you right answers.

 

I have tried only to setup the network and change the settings to my favor. I have no way to get the network setup wizard from thsi computer to the next, as my windows xp cd has gone missing, I have no flash drive, and my computer has no floppy disk drive.

My question now is, it there any other way?

 

If you have more than one machine and different OSs then I believe the better thing to do is to get a Router and set each machine up 100% indpendent of the other.

Get a Network Printer ( I have an HP5850 ) that plugs right into the Router. Of cousre you will need to install the drivers on each machine but it is well worth it.

No more SHARING required. Although I believe you can still share things if you wish. Even the Internet connection can be set separately.

I HAD things like the Internet, Printer etc. shared at one time. My machine went nuts ( along with its' owner ) and I had a VERY UNHAPPY family. That is when I invested in a Router. Now no machine depends on the other for anything.

BillyBob

 

As long as your xp laptop has ethernet port, you don't have to worry about the things you mentioned above.

Usually, if you xp laptop has the ethernet port, that means the network drive has already been loaded unless you built the laptop yourself.

So, you just need to make sure what IP address scheme in the existing network, say in your win2000 computers, did they automatically(DHCP) or manually get IP addresses?

If it was automatic method, just simple setup your xp laptop using DHCP and connect it into the hub/switch where all other win2000s connected to. Then, ping them first, only if you can ping them successfully, you can do the rest.


If it was not automatic method, you need go to one of the win2000, to see what kind of IP address it used. Then follow the sample rule to setup ip address manually in you xp laptop. The do the samething as I mentioned above.

 

I have internet connectivity it was just the computers sharing and i already have aprinter. I've just decided to update the existing os and I had another problem which will be in the XP forum in a few minutes.... Thanks for your input....