Hi, recently bought laptop and want to find out how to link it up with my printer that is hooked up to my desktop
Thanking you in anticipation D/B
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If your using XP--
http://www.grpl.org/services/pubprint.html
I used these instruction for a friends machine, works fine. -
that did not work
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Okay.
Sorry about that.
What operating system are you using? What printer are you using. -
Apropos of networking printers, if you've a little spare cash in hand this season (ok, so maybe I'm a little over-optimistic
), you might also try a network print server (wired and connected to one of the LAN ports on your router, or wireless). I use a Netgear WGPS606 and haven't had a lick of trouble with it for over a year now (other than it getting unplugged by my distinctly non-techie wife
). That might be a viable solution as well as setting up printer sharing through your desktop. The benefit there is that the desktop won't have to be on for the laptop to be able to access the printer, as it would have to be under standard printer sharing.
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windows xp on desktop vista on new laptop and epson stylus 820 printer
Regards d/b -
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service pack-2
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The reason being that, because _Vista uses a different protocol for "seeing" the network it's attached to, it cannot "see" XP machines unless they have the ability to respond to the _Vista protocol - the LLTD responder gives the XP machine the ability to respond to the _Vista protocol. -
i downloaded the lltd what do i do next
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Install it on the XP machine.
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thats what i did d.loaded to my desktop which has xp
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Ok. When you you check network connections through _Vista, does it "see" the XP machine on the network?
laptop to printer
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by davidandbess, Dec 7, 2008.