Help - netwroking printer

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I have 2 desktop PCs (XP home and W2K) and a new Epson printer/scanner.
The PCs share a cable modem via a router and have the same IP.

They are networked together (both members of the same workgroup). When
the printer/scanner is plugged into the XP machine, I can do everything
with it just fine from the XP machine, and just print from on it from
the W2K machine. That's fine. That's how I expected it to work.

But, if I plug it into the W2K machine, I can do everything with it just
fine from it, but the XP machine can't see it, even though it can see
the W2K PC.

I've disabled the firewalls (Zone Alarm and ICF). And in both cases the
scanner is set up as a local device on the machine it's plugged into and
a shared device on the other.

Ideas?

TIA,

Dave
 
WebKatz said:
I have 2 desktop PCs (XP home and W2K) and a new Epson printer/scanner.
The PCs share a cable modem via a router and have the same IP.
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What do you mean, they "have the same IP?" They shouldn't (unless you
mean they are translated via NAT to appear as the same on the WAN).

If you've assigned them the same IP, that could cause the problems
you're seeing (and more).
 
When
the printer/scanner is plugged into the XP machine, I can do everything
with it just fine from the XP machine, and just print from on it from
the W2K machine. That's fine. That's how I expected it to work.

But, if I plug it into the W2K machine, I can do everything with it just
fine from it, but the XP machine can't see it, even though it can see
the W2K PC.

I've disabled the firewalls (Zone Alarm and ICF).
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you have diff fw on each of the computers? if so, i wonder if that's
significant in that one fw may pass the prn thru better????

And in both cases the
scanner is set up as a local device on the machine it's plugged into and
a shared device on the other.

Ideas?
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errr.. nothing solid :)

there's no way you named the prn-when-shared with the same name as
prn-when-local?
 
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