Accessing Printer on Wireless Network

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DAVID Y

I am having difficulty accessing a USB printer that
resides on my Windows XP Home desktop.
My Windows 2000 Pro can see the printer on the network but
consistently gives an error message when I attempt to
instal it. Occassionally it works but when the laptop re-
boots the printer is lost again.
The printer is a HP PSC 2175 All-in-one, the windows
firewall has been disabled and the printer software has
been uninstalled and re-installed on both. The only
firewall is the one that resides on my Linksys WAG54G
router ASDL modem.

If anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated as I
am running out of hair to pull out.
 
DAVID said:
I am having difficulty accessing a USB printer that
resides on my Windows XP Home desktop.
My Windows 2000 Pro can see the printer on the network but
consistently gives an error message when I attempt to
instal it.
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What is the error message?
Occassionally it works but when the laptop re-
boots the printer is lost again.
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Are you losing any other connections to shared drives, etc., on the desktop?
 
The error message is:
"Could not connect to the printer. You either entered a
printer name that was incorrect or the specified printer
is no longer connected to the server."
This is after trying to load the printer from the desktop
shared folder. I can see the network folders on the
desktop, I can ping the desktop, just can't load the
printer.
Thanks.
 
DAVID said:
The error message is:
"Could not connect to the printer. You either entered a
printer name that was incorrect or the specified printer
is no longer connected to the server."
This is after trying to load the printer from the desktop
shared folder. I can see the network folders on the
desktop, I can ping the desktop, just can't load the
printer.
Thanks.
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If you browse to the printer share on the desktop, can you right-click on it
and connect?
 
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