wireless printer and folders

Have you disabled or configured all firewalls (inlcuding the Windows XP firewal and any third party firewalls you may have running) to allow local network access?

Steve

i'll check, i know on my desktop i have seen a messge that says firewall is set up yo allow, how do i disable firewall on my notebook? then do i retry to add printer ? i have internet connection on notebook already

Which version of Windows is running on the notebook (Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2, or some other verison of Windows)? Which third party firewalls are are running on the notebook (Zone Alarm, Norton Internet Security, McAfee Security Center, Other)?

Steve

xp  don't know if it's xp2 or not

i have zone alarm and norton

i went to that spot, look at exceptions and printing and folders were exceptions that are not block

should i still diable firewall/ - Yes, you either have to disable it or configure it to allow local network access as explained above.

Steve

i'm sorry, i nolonger have zone alarm

when i go through the wizard it gives me this message

"home" is not acessible. you might not have permission to use this network resource. contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have acess permission.

the list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available

thanks for trying to  help. should i still diable firewall/

To find out if it's SP1 or SP2, go to Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > System. It should tell you there. If it is SP1, go to Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet Connections > Network Connections, then right click on the Local Area Connection and select Properties. Click on the Advanced tab and disable the Firewall.

If it is SP2, go to the same place (Advanced tab) and click on the Settings button under Windows Firewall. Note that it is not a good idea to run more than one firewall, so if you are going to run Zone Alarm or Norton Internet Security, then turn off the Windows Firewall here. If you are not going to run Zone Alarm or Norton, click on the Exceptions tab and make sure there is a check mark next to File and Printer Sharing.

If you are running both Zone Alarm and Norton Internet Security, this is not a good idea. Decide which one you are going to use and uninstall the other one. Then read the documenation for the firewall have you decided to use and determine how you have to configure the firewall to allow local network access.

Steve

You also said that you had Norton (although you didn't say if it was Norton Internet Security). If you do have Norton Intenret Security, then you have to configure it to allow local network access. Since I don't have Norton Internet Security, nor do I know which version you have, I can't tell you how to configure it. That's what the product manuals are for.

Steve

thanks, i'll keep trying. i'll look at manuals