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November 15th, 2007 17:00

trouble sharing a printer

I want to share a printer attached to a computer on my network. The two computers are on the same network and when i click add printer and follow the steps.  I choose browes for printer and it will find the printer i want to but it will not connect.  It suggests that the printer is not comunicating with its host or that the printer name is miss spelled. 
 
I checked to see that i could print from the printers host computer and it printed fine.
 
I checked the properties of the printer it is shared and i made note of the shared name which was a shortened version and manually typed in the shared name and still it will not print.
 
any ideas.

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November 15th, 2007 19:00

are you using mcafee or norton on two computers chances are the firewall is blocking the printer to be shared, to test you can disable firewall then try sharing if it works try to check all exeptions to ensure it wont block the printer communication.

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November 16th, 2007 15:00

that did the trick thanks for the help
 

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