Network problems sharing printer on Win98 machine

[Christopher Nuckles]

I have a Win XP Laptop that was on the wireless network attached to my Win98
computer. All of a sudden, the laptop cannot see the Printer attached to
the Win98 machine. The printer is shared and shows up as shared but the XP
laptop cannot connect to it. I took my old Win98 laptop and it finds the
printer easily. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Lorne]

At least 20 people posted this problem to this group today (including me).
I think yesterday's XP critical update turned off NetBIOS over TCP/IP. I
got my system back up and running by turning it on again - see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318030 if you need
help.