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| Guest | Printer Sharing I have a laptop running Vista and PC running XP. Wireless connection via router. I want to share the printer currently attached to the PC. I have enabled all printer sharing devices, enabled sharing in all firewalls. The printer is shown on the laptop as "ready", but whenever I try to print everything goes into queue. And the only way I can get it out of queue is be stopping the spooling. Both PC/laptop have same computer names and same workgroup names. Any ideas why printing only goes to queue and does not print? -- Kathy |
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| Guest | RE: Printer Sharing I just came here to post the same question almost word for word. I have an HP CLJ 1600 printer connected to a Vista Business PC via USB and shared. I am able to install the network printer fine on my XP Media Center laptop but when I print to it the job hangs in the queue on the vista PC. I have had lengthy discussions with HP support but they refuse to support it in that configuration. They keep saying "This is a host-based printer". Whatever - I have never had trouble sharing your host-based printers in the past. They say the problem lies with Windows and I should come here for help. I am also printing over a wireless network. If anyone is able to succesfully print in this configuration, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks, Doug MCSE, CWNA, CWSP "Kathy" wrote:
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| Guest | RE: Printer Sharing Glad to hear I'm not the only one. Been on several "discussion" groups in MS and still cannot print. My printer is an HP psc 1210 all in one. Other discussion people suggested I go to the printing, etc. forum but have yet to get any answers. Hopefully soon someone will read these posts and answer. -- Kathy "dschaef8" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Printer Sharing Try installing it as a network printer in the following manner.... Instead of using the name of the computer and the printer, use the TCP/IP address, followed by the name of the printer. Or install it as a local printer, then change the address as above. -- Cari (MS-MVP Printing & Imaging) http://www.coribright.com/windows "Kathy" <Kathy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:8C7FBF5D-3570-4560-ACE6-16733EC5AA7A@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Printer Sharing I tried installing both ways and get an error message that says it cannot detect a printer. The printer is turned on, etc. Any other ideas? -- Kathy "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Printer Sharing what does the printer return when you ping the IP address? -- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Kathy" <Kathy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news 8FE5FD7-93E8-46E3-A3E8-03B9623F6E03@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Printer Sharing Thanks for your reply - however, don't know what ping the IP address means or how to do it???? -- Kathy "Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Printer Sharing PS Remember we're not all professionals - some of us are just plain novice!!! We only like to play with computers!!!! -- Kathy "Kathy" wrote:
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| Banned | Re: Printer Sharing i really doubt u need to ping the comps...normally is not the problem..but here we go.. make sure your computer names are different...i had the same comp names and it wont work...u have to change the comp name... go to welcome center>Show more details....>and under computer name domain, and network settings click change settings...under the computer name tab..click change...and rename one of your computers should work..let me kno if it does |
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| Guest | Re: Printer Sharing I tried printing and in the printer dialog box it says "printing", but nothing is after about 10 minutes. Should I be doing something else. One thing that did work is it seems that I can now share files, etc., but printing still seems to be a hang-up!! Thanks for your help -- Kathy "mathews2010" wrote:
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