Printer sharing problems

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rolcol

Hi,

I have a small home network with three machines all
running Windows 2000. My main machine(#1) has a HP
Officejet d145 connected to it via USB. A second machine,
(#2), is connected via a hardwire connection to a Linksys
wireless router. File/printer sharing are not a problem
for either of these machines. A third machine, (#3),
connects to the network on a Linksys wireless connection.
File sharing is fine but the problem is accessing the
network printer. I can "see" the printer on the network
from #3 but get the "printer name is invalid" message. I'm
aware of the character-naming problems associated with
windows 2000 and this does not seem to be the issue. I've
renamed the computers, workgroup, printer and the problem
still exists. In addition, I did an uninstall/reinstall of
the printer software...but to no avail. One solution that
did help was making a connection via #1's IP address which
did allow for a connection...but created a new problem.
Printing would only allow me to print one page at a time.
Anyway.....I'd love to hear any suggestions on this
matter. Thanks.

Also....I called Microsoft and they were happy to help if
I paid the $245 per incident fee....almost the cost of the
printer (totally unacceptable.....and gouging!!)
 
Hi,

Share the printer on #1.
Try to install the printer driver locally on the #3,
after installation on #3 add port-> local port
there you give \\#1's_IP_address\#1s's_pritner_name

Hope this solves the problem,
 
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