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Ross May 23rd 07 05:58 PM

Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.
 
This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect my vista
premium to my xp.
I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp) from
my Vista.
I dont know how i can find it, please help;

JW May 23rd 07 06:11 PM

Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.
 
Is it set up as a shared printer on your XP system?

"Ross" wrote in message
...
This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect my
vista
premium to my xp.
I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp) from
my Vista.
I dont know how i can find it, please help;




Ross May 23rd 07 06:28 PM

Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.
 
Yes it is posted as shared. I have done everything i dont know whats wrong.

"JW" wrote:

Is it set up as a shared printer on your XP system?

"Ross" wrote in message
...
This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect my
vista
premium to my xp.
I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp) from
my Vista.
I dont know how i can find it, please help;





freddy May 23rd 07 06:53 PM

Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.
 
Ross,

Perhaps you can get some insight from this post from another forum:

http://forums.vnunet.com/thread.jspa?messageID=783585

Every little bit helps.
--
freddy


"Ross" wrote:

Yes it is posted as shared. I have done everything i dont know whats wrong.

"JW" wrote:

Is it set up as a shared printer on your XP system?

"Ross" wrote in message
...
This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect my
vista
premium to my xp.
I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp) from
my Vista.
I dont know how i can find it, please help;





Kurt Herman May 23rd 07 08:14 PM

Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.
 
Make sure you are in the same workgroup. XP defaults to MSHOME and Vista
defaults to something else I cant think of at the moment. Set your Vista
workgroup to whatever the XP machine is set at.

Kurt

"freddy" wrote in message
...
Ross,

Perhaps you can get some insight from this post from another forum:

http://forums.vnunet.com/thread.jspa?messageID=783585

Every little bit helps.
--
freddy


"Ross" wrote:

Yes it is posted as shared. I have done everything i dont know whats
wrong.

"JW" wrote:

Is it set up as a shared printer on your XP system?

"Ross" wrote in message
...
This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect
my
vista
premium to my xp.
I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp)
from
my Vista.
I dont know how i can find it, please help;






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