Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.

Posted: 05-23-2007, 06:58 PM
This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect my vista
premium to my xp.
I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp) from
my Vista.
I dont know how i can find it, please help;
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JW
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Re: Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.
Posted: 05-23-2007, 07:11 PM
Is it set up as a shared printer on your XP system?

"Ross" <Ross@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect my
> vista
> premium to my xp.
> I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp) from
> my Vista.
> I dont know how i can find it, please help;

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Ross
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Re: Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.
Posted: 05-23-2007, 07:28 PM
Yes it is posted as shared. I have done everything i dont know whats wrong.

"JW" wrote:
> Is it set up as a shared printer on your XP system?
>
> "Ross" <Ross@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A53EAD4E-E848-4308-80D4-2093C4E7EC3A@microsoft.com...
> > This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect my
> > vista
> > premium to my xp.
> > I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp) from
> > my Vista.
> > I dont know how i can find it, please help;
>
>
>
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Re: Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.
Posted: 05-23-2007, 07:53 PM
Ross,

Perhaps you can get some insight from this post from another forum:

http://forums.vnunet.com/thread.jspa?messageID=783585

Every little bit helps.
--
freddy


"Ross" wrote:
> Yes it is posted as shared. I have done everything i dont know whats wrong.
>
> "JW" wrote:
>
> > Is it set up as a shared printer on your XP system?
> >
> > "Ross" <Ross@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:A53EAD4E-E848-4308-80D4-2093C4E7EC3A@microsoft.com...
> > > This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect my
> > > vista
> > > premium to my xp.
> > > I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp) from
> > > my Vista.
> > > I dont know how i can find it, please help;
> >
> >
> >
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Kurt Herman
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Re: Cant find Printer Through a Linksys Router.
Posted: 05-23-2007, 09:14 PM
Make sure you are in the same workgroup. XP defaults to MSHOME and Vista
defaults to something else I cant think of at the moment. Set your Vista
workgroup to whatever the XP machine is set at.

Kurt

"freddy" <fkirschen@tidalwave.net> wrote in message
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> Ross,
>
> Perhaps you can get some insight from this post from another forum:
>
> http://forums.vnunet.com/thread.jspa?messageID=783585
>
> Every little bit helps.
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "Ross" wrote:
>
>> Yes it is posted as shared. I have done everything i dont know whats
>> wrong.
>>
>> "JW" wrote:
>>
>> > Is it set up as a shared printer on your XP system?
>> >
>> > "Ross" <Ross@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:A53EAD4E-E848-4308-80D4-2093C4E7EC3A@microsoft.com...
>> > > This is NOT a wirless router. I use a Belkin (Blue) Wire to connect
>> > > my
>> > > vista
>> > > premium to my xp.
>> > > I cant find my Helwett Packard Deskjet 930c Printer (connected to xp)
>> > > from
>> > > my Vista.
>> > > I dont know how i can find it, please help;
>> >
>> >
>> >
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