Shared Printer if it's an All-in-One?

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Two computers, each using Windows XP (actually one is XP-
Pro, other is XP-Home). HP All-in-One 6100 series works
fine with one computer, and I have it as "shared" on that
computer. However, other printer cannot access it. I
have run the Wizard on each computer, no avail. I
disabled the firewalls on each computer, no avail. The
two computers are connected to a common router, and they
both can access the Internet through the router.

Must I load the printer (ie, All-in-One) driver into the
second computer? Will that even solve the problem?
 
This is Gil

On my sytem they can see each others computers and shared
files, but the remote PC can not see the shared printer on
the PC that has it attached.
 
This is Gil.

1. I am using simple file sharing.

2. No the user name and password on the firsy PC is not
added as a User name and password on the second PC and
vice versa. Should both PCs have both Users and password?

3. Both PCs do have the same admin name and password.
 
Cari,

Tou seem very knowledgable regarding shared printers. Do
you know of any bug that was recently indroduced in
Windows XP Professional that broke shared printing over a
home based network with a printer attached to another PC.
A priner attached to the network works fine.

I had shared printing working perfectly before I upgraded
Windows XP then I started to get error messages that the
spooler was not working so I deleted the Printer and
started all over again to no avail.

Thanks for your time and help.

Both PCS see each other and each other shared files except
for the shared printer.

Gil
 
No, I have all updates and my all shared printers are still working fine. I
had already got the update BEFORE the MSBlast appeared on the scene... so do
not know whether the fix for that might have broken anything. However I see
no reason why it should have.

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
Thanks for the response.

I did update after the
MSBlast appeared, but other people should have
reported the same problem by now. Guess I will keep on
trouble shooting.

Gil
 
That's a great answer (slight sarcasm)

I'm doing something very similar between an XP Pro box
and 98SE, sharing an older HP 722C.
In order to get it to work I had to install the HP
drivers on the XP pro machine and then connected to the
printer attached to the 98 machine as a network printer.
Occasionally it'll hiccup, but it works fine.

John is probably right about not having access to all the
features of the all-in-one, if your second machine needs
it I'd suggest switching which machine is actually
plugged into the printer.

As for the comment about HP's I've never had any problems
with that old 722C and it's about 5 years old now. I
can't say the same for this Lexmark that's making me lose
the rest of my hair!!!
 
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