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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; |
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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; |
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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; |
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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; |
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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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