Sharing printer on wireless network

Question

I have a netgear router set up for a wireless connection for two computers in my home.  I am having trouble being able to share the printer.  I have enabled printer sharing on the host computer and have turned off the firewall on  both pcs.   When I try to look at the network on the wireless pc I get this message.   '(computer) is not accesible.  You might not have permission to use this network resource.  Contact the administrator of this service to find out of you have access to permissions.   Logon failure:  the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.'   This is just a home network, 2 pcs connected.  I have added a guest account to the host pc as suggested to me but just can't seem to figure out why I can't share the printer.   P.S.  The printer was shared at an earlier time but I had to reformat that PC.  Since then, I can't get it to share the printer or share files.   Thanks for any help.

MRF4700 · Answer

kgwright Do you have the printer configured as a local printer on the host computer and configured as a network printer using the Add Printer Wizard on the wireless PC, respectively? What brand and model printer are you using? What brand and model computers do you own? Are they running Windows XP?

kgwright · Answer

Yes, I am running Windows XP on both PCs. The host PC is a Dell Dimension 2400 and the other PC is a IBM clone, pentium 3.

The printer is configured as local printer on the host. I cannot get the printer to be added on the wireless PC. It will browse and find the printer but then It asks me to type in a printer name. I type in the name of the printer from the host "hpdeskjet 940c" and then it tells me that the name is wrong or the network has lost its connection.

The printer is a HP 940C.

MRF4700 · Answer

kgwright Which PC did you have to reformat? Did you configure the IBM to your network using the Wireless Network Wizard?

kgwright · Answer

I had to reformat the wireless PC.  No, I don't think I used the wireless network wizard.  Can you help me with that?  Just run the wizard?

MRF4700 · Answer

kgwright   On the wireless PC, go to Network Places > Select View Workgroup Computers. Does it recognize the desktop computer?   If it sees the desktop computer than I don't think you'll need to run the wizard, just yet.

kgwright · Answer

Yes, I can see the host PC on the wireless pc in the workgroup.

MRF4700 · Answer

kgwright Try this? Go to the desktop and Click Start >Control Panel >System > click Computer Name tab. Make note of the full computer name? Start Add Printer Wizard on the laptop? Select Network printer option? Next window asks you what printer you want to connect too? Don't browse for printer, select Connect to this printer option. Below white box is 'Example: \server\printer' type in the 2 hash marks(\) 'server' is the full computer name from the desktop, should be all upper case characters. Type the next hash mark(\), 'printer' which is the printer share name from the desktop that you created when you ticked the sharing printer box on the desktop. This needs to be typed verbatim what you typed in that white box on the desktop. See if that works to get your printer configured?

smi4motion · Answer

You Did create a user acount on the computer your trying to connect to ...right? With enough rights? Maybe Power User?

kgwright · Answer

This is  windows XP.  The wireless computer has an account with administrator rights.  Do I need to do something else?

kgwright · Answer

I tried that. It acted like it was going to connect. Then a box popped up that said:

Connecting to DGH1QG21 (computer name) and wanted a password. Wasn't sure what password to use. I tried the password we use for everything and it didn't work so not sure what it should be.

Thanks for all your help!

smi4motion · Answer

well if your and admin on this one the user name and password need to match on both to work without having to log into the other one hope that made sence

kgwright · Answer

There are no passwords on any of the users on this pc.  The name is the same on the account on the wireless and this pc. It doesn't seem like it should be this hard!

smi4motion · Answer

First make sure that you have the client for microsoft wiondows loaded on the 98 box than create a user account called admin. give that user Administrative rights. Now go to the XP box and do the same. Because you have no Domain Controller and are using win98 log on to both stations as admin. see if that resolves the issue

MRF4700 · Answer

kgwright Are you sure both computers have the same workgroup name? Is the 2400 running any third party firewall software?(Norton Internet Security, Trend Micro, McAfee, Zone Alarm, etc.)

kgwright · Answer

No, there is no other firewall software.  The both look to be in the work group MSHOME.  I can see both of them in that group on both computers.

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