Wireless Printing - Comments Page 6

I have a wireless network. Cable modem,to Linksys router, with Dell desktop (XP OS) connected to router. An hp psc1315 printer is wired to desk top. Have a Dell lap top (Vista OS) wireless to router. Followed instructions, made desk top printer a share printer with name printer1.

On lap top cannot find this printer. Help!

Thanks, Allan

EDITOR'S NOTE: Maybe a firewall issue. Try turning firewalls on both machine off...

You are my hero!

I have 2 printers installed on my desktop...an HP and a Lexmark. I have a wireless home network set up. The wizard "pulled" over my HP printer on my laptop but it didn't "pull" over the information for the Lexmark printer (which is the one I want to use right now). What have I done wrong? Thank you for reading and your help!

EDITOR'S NOTE: I had a Lexmark that would even share on a wired network. I think I neded up installing the printer software from the CD on both computers. That may help.

I have a Dell desktop with XP attached to two printers. I have one laptop able to print wirlessly to both printers. This first laptop also uses XP. We have a second laptop with Vista that cannot print to either printer. I assume this has something to do with drivers, but I am not sure what I need to do. Any suggestions?

EDITOR'S NOTE: What happens when you try to print from the Vista machine?

Bob, our kodak aio printer his directly connected to our xp desktop, we have two vista laptops that can see the printer but when we try I get the error on my laptop saying "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Make sure you have typed the name correctly, and that the printer is connected to the network." which both are already taken care of. Help

EDITOR'S NOTE: When you say they can "see the printer" do you mean it shows up in the list of installed printers? Vista seems to not cooperate well on a wireless network with non-Vista computers. You might try disabling firewalls, or running your Vista machine in Admin mode.

Thanks for all the great information. I followed it, but the laptop could not find the printer that is hooked up to my desktop. My laptop is a Vista, should that matter? Please help me hook this up it is driving me crazy. I have been trying different things for 2 weeks.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I've suggested to others with Vista that the built-in firewall may be causing the problem. You might also try running as Admin to see if it's a problem with user privileges.

I turned both my desktop machine & lapotop's firewall off. Are my computers at risk from Internet threats?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I suggest you see: http://askbobrankin.com/do_i_need_a_firewall.html

Bob, I had the same problem as Darren (Aug. 2 posting) = "I followed your instructions to set up my wireless printing. Had trouble. My desktop is the one with the printer attached. The printer is on. Both the desktop and my laptop are running VISTA. But when I tried to add a printer on my laptop it said 'none found' even though I am on line through my wireless router." The wireless laptop can't find the network printer.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Seems pretty common with Vista. The new security features get in the way more often than they help. DId you try running as Admin, or turning off the firewall?

I red the information and although helpful. I was unsuccessful. I have a dell pc running windows XP, connected to two (2) printers. I have a toshiba laptop running vista I want to print from these printer using a D-link wireless router. I have a secure WPA2 connection.

I have the printers on the PC working fine and have them shared. I run the "add printer" and it is unable to locate the printer on the network. I am allowed to locate one with TCP/IP address but do not know what to do from there.

FYI. I also disable both firewalls thinking that would help... No help..

EDITOR'S NOTE: Vista seems to make printer sharing much more difficult. Are you logged in as an Admin user?

My son, who normally does these things for me, is away at school. He sent me the link to your site. What nice clear instructions! My computer asks for the URL of my printer.... how can I find that? If I use the browse feature, it only has the directory for the printers at work...not here at home. I have ascertained the Home PC is in "share" position. I have put your site on "my favorites"! Thanks... old lady school teacher here. Don't know if it matters.... I have a school issued...Lenovo X61 laptop.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Your computer may be set to connect to a different workgroup name, since it came from the school. Click on Control Panel, System, then click the Computer Name tab. Click the Change button and you can change the Workgroup name.

I have a similar situation to Adrian. My laptop runs Vista and I am logged in as the Admin user. I set up both computer's firewalls to enable printer sharing. I can also locate a printer with the TCP/IP address, but I don't know how to proceed. Thanks in advance for any advice!

I have a dell desktop running vista & a dell laptop running vista both on a wireless network, my hp printer is attached to desktop, when I had a laptop w/ xp no problems, but now I have to re-add the printer every time to print from my vista laptop. I also now have to have my destop powered on, AND signed in which did not happen w/ my xp laptop...HELP?

I just got a Dell 3115 laser printer and am trying to set it up to print when my laptop is not directly connected. I had a different Dell laser printer until today where a friend had set it up so I could print from anywhere in the house...but I can't seem to replicate on my new printer what he did. I only have one PC/laptop and it runs via a wireless router. I have connected the printer to the wireless router. I have shared the Dell 3115 printer installed on my PC, yet I am still not able to print unless I've got a wire running between the printer and my laptop. Please help!

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sometimes the installation of the printer requires careful attention to the instructions. I would remove the printer/driver from your laptop, then re-install as per the instructions from Dell.

Great post. My only problem is that I have multiple computers in the house and wish for none of them to be with a wire to my printer. I want for all of them to print wirelessly. Any suggestions?

EDITOR'S NOTE: You'll need a network printer that plugs directly into the router.

Thanks for your help on these matter, took awhile to find how to above with Vista on my laptop but it finally worked. So i just want to say thanks...

Just not working,,tryed the instructionsn but printer not recognied, using HP Pavilion Laptop w/XP Pro w/ HP C3100 series printer via USB connection --wireless from a Linksys WRT54GS router --and can't get my wireless Compaq 2200 Laptop w/XP Home Edition to print out on the HP printer connected to the HP laptop

I followed your instructions on printing wirelessly and it worked like a charm! It took all of about 4 minutes. I have Vista on my laptop too, but it worked fine. Just had to install the printer driver, and voila! Printer connection wirelessly. Thanks for the great instructions!

I have 2 printers wired to desktop PC and a laptop hooked up to network by Linksys router. Both use XP. Laptop can't find either printer which are set up as shared.Laptop is connected to router.Firewall was turned off.

John

I really appreciate you article. My wife has a laptop (Toshiba) hooked wireless to my Dell desktop. She wanted to be able to print using my printer which is wired. We were told we would have to change my computer to wireless and buy a wireless printer. Didnt sound right to me. Your article proved me right! Thanks, it works fine.

Just wanted to say thanks. The instructions were simple and easy to follow. Worked on the first try. Thanks again for the article.