The info has been posted numerous times on these forums that a search would have turned up. Among the solutions is disable the XP firewall, be in the same workgroup, have sharing enabled. A search or even a google will elicit more.
www.homnenethelp.com is also a good source.
Thankyou for the information and sorry if all of this has been done before but you must remember I am a total beginner to all this (Not just wireless that is) so I am learning slowly but surely.
I have turned off the firewall but it seems the network wized re enables it during configuration. Also the wizard enables sharing at the same time and I am making sure both machines are in the same workgroup.
Your Norton Firewall is causing a problem becasue it does not recognize the printer as being within your "trusted zone" and/or your have both the XP Firewall and Norton Firewall running at the same time. You can only one one, Two is not twice as good.
Whichever machine the printer is connected to, you must enable sharing for the printer ( a little hand will show under the printer icon) and then install the printer on the second machine as a netwrok printer.
You will probably find fewer problems if you stay away from the Networking Wizard until Microsoft fixes it ,and they are going to chnage the functionality of that Wizard!
OK for anyone whos interested this is how I finaly managed it:
Before running the wizard all printers, their software and drivers must be removed. XP firewall, Norton personal firewall and norton anti virus must be disabled throughout the entire set up operation. The print Spooler must be stopped throuout the entire set up operation (Control pannel/Administritive tools/Services/Print spooler.) The wizard will now run succesfuly. Once set up Norton personal firewall must be configured on all machines to accept networking.
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Thankyou for the information and sorry if all of this has been done before but you must remember I am a total beginner to all this (Not just wireless that is) so I am learning slowly but surely.
I have turned off the firewall but it seems the network wized re enables it during configuration. Also the wizard enables sharing at the same time and I am making sure both machines are in the same workgroup.
Would running Norton Firewall cause a problem?
The link you sent is not working by the way...
Thanks again
Rob
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Your Norton Firewall is causing a problem becasue it does not recognize the printer as being within your "trusted zone" and/or your have both the XP Firewall and Norton Firewall running at the same time. You can only one one, Two is not twice as good.
Whichever machine the printer is connected to, you must enable sharing for the printer ( a little hand will show under the printer icon) and then install the printer on the second machine as a netwrok printer.
You will probably find fewer problems if you stay away from the Networking Wizard until Microsoft fixes it ,and they are going to chnage the functionality of that Wizard!
I'll post these sites as good resources also:
www.homenethelp.com
http://www.theeldergeek.com/quick_guide_to_simple_file_sharing.htm
http://service.dell.com/dell/topic/1,,33732+30+26124,00.html
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
Message Edited by jmwills on 04-09-2004 02:12 AM
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OK for anyone whos interested this is how I finaly managed it:
Before running the wizard all printers, their software and drivers must be removed. XP firewall, Norton personal firewall and norton anti virus must be disabled throughout the entire set up operation. The print Spooler must be stopped throuout the entire set up operation (Control pannel/Administritive tools/Services/Print spooler.) The wizard will now run succesfuly. Once set up Norton personal firewall must be configured on all machines to accept networking.
BINGO!
Thanks
Rob