how to connect to printer thru wireless

Question

Would appreciate assistance on how I can connect my Inspiron 6000 wireless laptop to printer that's on my desktop. The router is connected to my desktop.  The printer is HP Officejet R40. I have both computer setup to share printer.

esquire · Answer

It's similar to adding a local printer.

Open Control Panel, and click Printers and Other Hardware.

Click Add a printer under Pick a task.

Instead of adding a local printer, click network printer, or a printer attached to another computer

Message Edited by esquire on 11-04-2005 10:01 AM

steven troise · Answer

i have a much easier and better way. first find the ip address of the desktop pc. once u have the ip address of the desktop go to your laptop. do the following commands.   click start then run type in \ ip address number example   \xxx.xxx.xx.x.x   where the xxx are are your numbers of the ip address. then hit the enter key your printer folder will show up   double click it and install printer drivers   thats it your done. enjoy printing from your yard

volcano11 · Answer

That might work fine if the computer to which the printer is attached has a static IP address.  On most home networks, the IP may change because they use dhcp, then the networked printer will no longer work.   Steve

volcano11 · Answer

Great, I'm glad it is working for you. But, do you see the potential problem in this, especially for someone who may not be as aware of what this is doing? IP addresses can and do change with dhcp, especially as computers are added to or removed from the network and get turned on/off in different order. When your network printer stops working, just remember how you set it up. When I give advice, I try to make sure my advice will not cause problems in the future. All I am asking is that you do the same.

Steve

steven troise · Answer

my broadband is using dhcp and not static and i have no problems. i have 3 laptops and can print fine for months

steven troise · Answer

ok

dhka · Answer

Appreciate the response, but here's my problem:

When I look to add to a printer it goes through the "Add Printer Wizard" then it wants me to identify the printer ?? But the printer is connected to my desktop computer and I want to connect to this printer by using the wireless on my laptop. The printer is HP Officejet R40.

Your thoughts, please.

Thanks,

Don

lillhouse · Answer

I just recently puschased and insperion laptop with windows 7 installed. I have an HP PSC 950 connected to my laptop and can see the network from my laptop. When I try to install the printer if says that it cannot find the driver for it. I previously had a laptop using XP and had no problem doing this. Any suggestions on how to connect through the network to a printer on another computer would be great.

lynne4270 · Answer

Load the software that came with the printer on every computer you want to use that printer with and make it the default printer. Also make sure the share printer is checked in the main computers network and sharing in the control panel with no password needed.